What is the Hegelian Dialectic?

One of the frequent subversive magick tricks is to feign ignorance or claim denial or unimportance in some particular area. In other words "incite contrarian curiosity in sense", "dangle a carrot", incite a thorough counter argument. "If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite."
- Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Hygelian Dialectic comes to mind.