Part One of 'A Perpetual Ought Condemned to Repetitious Monotony: Hegelian Perspectives on the Unhappy Self and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder' In The Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel talks of the “tragic fate” — as well as the “grief and longing” — of the “Unhappy Self” striving to be absolute in its certainty. It is a consciousness that cannot tolerate its own finitude. In many ways, Hegel’s portrait reads uncannily like the inner world of someone suffering from OCD. Torn bet