The Chiaroscuro of the Logos. Contradiction C in Severino’s Thought between Totality and Unconscious

The aim of this essay is to show how Emanuele Severino’s thought engages with exceedances and aporias that involve the logos or original structure. To achieve this goal, the essay is divided into two parts. The first analyses the concept of contradiction C, which introduces the problem of possible exceedances beyond the horizon of the logos. Secondly, the essay examines the peculiarity of Severino’s approach by comparing it with I fondamenti della logica aristotelica by Guido Calogero, another Italian thinker who addressed the same issue. Overall, we will see how the problem of “before and after the logos” relates, in Severino’s thought, to the question of concrete totality and the unconscious.