The Fichtean Curve: Narrative cardiac arrest on screen
Óscar Reyes Matute In philosophy, Johann Gottlieb Fichte described the dialectical movement of consciousness: the “I” (thesis) collides with the external world, or “Not-I” (antithesis), and through overcoming that resistance, achieves self-awareness (synthesis). Fichte, a pillar of German Idealism, never drew a graph. Yet, modern storytelling took his principle of tension and constant collision and […]
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