I found an interesting pattern across history. It begins with the book of Genesis: then, you have to notice that the tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu, is like a repetition of the book of Genesis in its archetypal book-ness (it was even also written by a lady of the court, like Genesis.) That’s a feminine pair of repetition; correspondingly, there’s a masculine pair of repetition in Caesar and Napoleon, who is a repetition of Caesar.
It goes deeper: the feminine pairs contain a hint of the masculine implicitly, in their themes: moral conquest, and romantic conquest, the themes get more typically feminine across the repetition. The masculine pair contains traces of the feminine in the form of writings (Gallic wars, Napoleon’s letters) but incidentally, not implicitly. Just a theory of my own, no sources.
Diagram of structure attached.
I’m calling these the historical conditions of possibility of Hegel, since Hegel saw Napoleon, the last condition, between finishing the phenomenology and starting the logic