Consciousness’s distance from God mirrors and derives from God’s own self-distancing

Evidence

What appears from this passage is that consciousness only represents God because God re-presents himself; consciousness is only at a distance from God because God distances himself from himself. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 163

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the generative mechanism behind representation: distance originates in God’s own self-relation.
• XREF: Sketch of the plasticity thesis — God’s self-emptying and return is the model for the subject’s own movement. — connects to: Selfness arises when the possible I am is reflected as absent-presence; Divine self-presence is opened up by an internal distance rather than merely broken — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 858; Consciousness mirrors divine self-relation rather than constituting it (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Divine self-presence is opened up by an internal distance rather than merely broken #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 858
• Consciousness mirrors divine self-relation rather than constituting it #expands (0.80)
• God’s self-identity is differentiated and not empty even in pure thought #corroborates (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 663
• Thought requires deliberate self-distancing because reality resists being understood directly #complicates (0.72)