The Metaphysics of Power: Genesis and Self-Negation of the Archetype

Abstract

This article substantiates the necessity of a ‘metaphysical turn’ in the study of the phenomenon of power, interpreting it not as a derivative of social relations, but as a primary, transhistorical archetype rooted in the existential reaction of Dasein to the primordial Horror before the unstructured nature of being. The methodological basis of the work is the author’s triadic model, which postulates a dynamic equilibrium between three immanent principles: Order (the principle of formalization), Energy (sacrality and legitimacy), and diapheresis (the source of spontaneity and renewal). The author argues that the viability of any power system is determined by the co-presence and mutual tension of these principles, while the historical evolution of power appears as a process of progressive disruption of the triadic balance. The article diagnoses the contemporary systemic crisis as a ‘metaphysical psychosis’ of the archetype, characterized by the pathological autonomization of Order in the form of self-referential algorithmic procedure and the complete instrumentalization of Energy through mechanisms of negative identification against a constituted Other. This disintegration is verified through examples of modern political regimes: technocratic authoritarianism (absolute hegemony of Order), pluralistic anomie (disintegration of Energy into particularistic affects), and hybrid models (paranoid symbiosis). The final phase of evolution is conceptualized as the emergence of ‘Power-as-Interface’ – an impersonal algorithmic protocol in which power ultimately dissolves into the infrastructural predetermination of the environment. This stage signifies the disappearance of the subject of power and its metaphysical self-negation through the achievement of total operability amidst absolute semantic emptiness. In conclusion, the necessity of social ontology transformation is substantiated – the radical rehabilitation of diapheresisas the recognition of the priority of becoming and creative potential over static control. This opens the way to new, fragile forms of singular co-being, capable of sustaining the tension between order and freedom without suppressing life. The work concludes that the future beyond the algorithmic Interface belongs not to a new Leviathan, but to self-organizing communities that restore the ontological primacy of difference over identity in the conditions of contemporary global uncertainty of human existence.