Kojève's reading of Hegel

The following quote (below) is from, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT, (p. 229), by Alexandre Kojève . In this paragraph Kojève does a nice job of pulling together several ideas found in Hegel's description of what he (Hegel) sees as that which defines being human in terms of Man's dialectical reality (Totality). Below that paragraph one will find a graphic illustration as to how Hegel's terms seem drawn from the underlying philosophical structure of astrology. We can observe that Hegel's opposed notions, like "the action of Work" versus "the innate Given" which are responsible for the "realized Idea" are here; opposed to one another, and also related to one another by both specific astrological signs and specific angular relationships between related/interacting terms of his "Dialectic". In short, Hegel's reality just seems to go together this way, and we can use the structure of astrology's cyclical Zodiac to better illustrate, to better map, (or chart) his reportedly "obscure" points of reference. I have used a green dotted line to show how Kojève starts his discussion talking about how an idea is born from Desire. Using this astrological framework we can more readily grasp how Kojève explains the dialectical process of an idea's becoming, and how it is not Hegel's intention to confuse this birth of an idea as something Platonic, not something simply arriving a priori from some place beyond reality, the Idea is not given to Man as if from a god.