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Read Hegel.

So, the consciousness in Hegel has an empty centre, which is the identity-in-self-difference.

To be in and for itself means that consciousness is aware of its "being-external-to-itself", aware that it is both subject and substance; it has posited itself as something other than itself,, and reflected this otherness back into itself. This difference in itself of substance and subject in consciousness, or this "negative itself", is then the void.

But what's the difference between saying "consciousness have the void as its centre" and "the subject has the void as its centre", the latter e.g. Zizek takes as given?