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|285| real annihilation of its form, for the objective or the difference remains, or the activity of labour itself, finally ג) the possession of the product, or the possibility of annihilating it, as something [real for itself], both through that first relating, according to its matter, and through the second, of the annihilation of its form and of the giving of form by the subject, – and of passing over to enjoyment, which, however, remains wholly ideal.
Possession is not present at all in the first potency of practical feeling, and likewise taking possession purely as moment; or rather they are not real, not held apart, fixed. (Of a ground of right, or a side of possession pertaining to right, there can be no question here at all.)
Taking possession is the ideal element of this subsuming, or its rest; labour, the reality, or the movement, the entering of the subsuming subject into the reality of the object; the third, the synthesis, is possession and the storing and saving of the object; in it there is that ideal determination according to the first moment, but as real in the object according to the second.
β. In α the product has already been formally determined; as identity of the ideal determination, but of this as objective, real, checked; but the essential thing was the identity, the activity as such, and hence as something inner, which does not come forth; it must come forth in the object, and this second potency ββ considers the relation of checked feeling to the object checked in annihilation, or the difference which is also in labour, namely the difference which lies between the reality and proper nature of the object, and its being ideally determined and being-determined by labour; in αα the object was the subsumed, here it is the subject; or in αα the ideal relation in labour was considered, here the real one; here labour is properly subsumed under intuition; for the object is in itself the universal; hence, where it is subsuming, the singularity of the subject has its proper rational place; it is concept in itself, difference, and subsumes.
Labour in αα is wholly mechanical, for singularity, abstraction, pure causality, is in the form of indifference and is the dominant, and hence something external for the object; for causality is thereby in truth posited, since this subject [is] a singular, absolutely for-itself-being, and thus absolute division and difference. Where, on the other hand, the object and the universal is subsuming, there is
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