Destruction provides the only proof that cerebral auto-affection exists
Evidence
Cerebral auto-affection is a process that becomes all the more fragile and all the more exposed to the extent that the event of its destruction constitutes the only proof of its existence for the subject. The importance of this auto-affection can be revealed only negatively, through an accident—a wound, damage, or trauma—that happens to interrupt or disrupt its functioning. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 1070
Categorization
- XREF: The negative/negative revelation of subjectivity through its wound evokes the book’s core trauma thesis and connects to the ontology of the wound the reader is tracking. — connects to: The unconscious itself is exposed to irreversible destruction — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 1418; Freud’s model renders brain-lesion disaffection a self-destruction, not a neural cause — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 2461; The cerebral self constitutes mortality internally without achieving self-knowledge — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 1038 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- The cerebral self constitutes mortality internally without achieving self-knowledge
#expands(0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 1038 - Freud’s model renders brain-lesion disaffection a self-destruction, not a neural cause
#corroborates(0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 2461 - The unconscious itself is exposed to irreversible destruction
#expands(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 1418 - Freud’s libido theory absorbs even organic brain damage into sexual etiology
#corroborates(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 2446 - No one can prove all mental activity equals neuronal configuration
#corroborates(0.78) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 204 - The brain always attempts post-lesion reorganization even when it fails
#qualifies(0.72) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 102