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Against the background of a psychoanalytic anthropology, and owing much to Hobbes's view of the individual as isolated, instinct driven, asocial, and strategically oriented, the author presents a detailed critique of the intersubjectivist approaches of Karl-Otto Apel, Jurgen Habermas, Hans Joas, and above all, Axel Honneth, pivoting centrally on the diagnosis of the progressive disappearance of the work of the negative in the intersubjectivist paradigm.