Kabbalah, the Truth of Lacan, Hegel, and Marx: The Capital of Time
Abstract This paper explores the convergence of Kabbalistic cosmology with the critical philosophies of Jacques Lacan, G.W.F. Hegel, and Karl Marx, specifically through the lens of time as a structuring force of subjectivity, history, and capital. Drawing from psychoanalysis, dialectical materialism, and esoteric theology, the study proposes a theoretical synthesis: Time is the true substance of capital, and its production and circulation are mediated through symbolic structures that both constitute and fracture the subject. Kabbalah's notion of divine absence (tzimtzum) becomes a metaphysical precursor to Lacan's barred subject, Hegel's dialectic of negativity, and Marx's logic of surplus value. The article argues that capital is a temporal phenomenon, a system that commodifies delay, deferral, and futurity itself. 1. Introduction: Time, Truth, and Symbolic Structure Time is the hidden economy of the modern world. It underpins the operations of capital, the traumas...