A thing must die in becoming its own concept

Evidence

Paradoxically, the ‘sting’ of that ‘point’ can leave the living thing insensible. But, at another level, it is the point which makes it possible to follow the phenomenon until the very end, to bring it to completion at least in some sense, and that may well mean for it to die in becoming its concept. Moreover, the terms rigidity and point also evoke a ‘steep slope’ (l’abrupt), a ‘point’ in the logical sense reached when a decision is reversed, as when we say ‘from this point on …’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1028

Categorization

• QUESTION: The idea that determination/rigidity carries a sting yet also enables completion — and that completion means death in concept — is worth chasing: how does this relate to plasticity’s double movement of giving form and receiving form?
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s core interest in plasticity as the root of brain work — a brain becoming its concept ‘dies’ into determinacy, echoing the tension between plasticity and determinacy she explores. — connects to: Assimilation requires the thing eaten already to be disposed toward its own destruction.; Conceptualization inevitably imposes form on formless life — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 1018; Perceiving one’s own body as an object converts its lived possibilities into dead-possibilities (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Conceptualization inevitably imposes form on formless life #exemplifies (0.90) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 1018
• Without destruction of prior form, identity cannot sustain itself. #corroborates (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 245
• A non-religious impulse within religion can destroy its own forms #exemplifies (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 852
• Perceiving one’s own body as an object converts its lived possibilities into dead-possibilities #exemplifies (0.80)
• Human reality is an abortive project toward being its own self-cause #corroborates (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1440
• Concepts only become effective when incorporated into sensuous existence #corroborates (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 973
• The for-itself constitutes itself through an original negation of the thing #corroborates (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 571