In my master's thesis, I examine the key phases of embryonic formation across six chapters, which constitute the morphological foundation of the organism - the extensive or biophysiological part of the thesis. Each chapter is further divided into subsections, in which an abstract metaphysical interpretation is added to the fundamental bodily folds while comparatively intertwining the contrasting ontological positions of Gilles Deleuze and Georg W. F. Hegel - the interpretative or reflective section. The thesis's speculative basis is the proposal that the formation of the body - which in itself encompasses its phylogenetic history - has fundamental consequences for its unconscious repetition in the postnatal phase, especially with regard to psychosexual development, as Freud explained in his discovery of psychoanalysis. Since this repetition is a drive, that primarily preserves the formed organism and thus constitutes its transcendental field, and in its excess produces the object, it becomes necessary to elaborate the dynamics of these forces. I further extend this to an equally speculative interpretation of the consequences of the theory of relativity, through which I attempt to relativize the notion of extensivity. Along this trajectory, the thesis culminates in the image of time as a body, whose reality, captured in its boundary (form), is an explication of its teleological formation, through the understanding and expression of which it may proceed towards its otherness.
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