Divine alienation is simultaneously receptivity and spontaneity in God.

Evidence

The concept of ‘alienation’, carefully dissected, shows us that if God does accept the form of subjectivity, if He does submit himself to being a subject, it is He who gives subjectivity the very form He receives from it. In alienating himself, God imprints subjectivity with a special type of self-extension, an ‘exteriorization’. He gives himself this same form, the form of development. Thus alienation must be seen from both sides, as a receptivity and a spontaneity in God. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 647

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core move of the whole book: alienation read as plasticity — form-giving and form-receiving at once — not a one-way loss. This is the dialectical definition the reader needs to anchor plasticity.
• XREF: Directly targets the reader’s project: the dual structure of receiving-and-giving form is precisely what Malabou will name plasticity and parallel with the brain’s capacity to give and receive form. — connects to: God’s alienation is at once receptivity and spontaneity, receiving the form He gives — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 647; God’s alienation in Hegel is simultaneously receptive and spontaneous, a plasticity rather than passivity. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 647; Divine alienation is a temporalization, not a sign of incompleteness (+2 more)
• ADDENDUM: The receptivity/spontaneity dyad is the conceptual spine for any essay bridging Hegelian plasticity to neuroplasticity as the brain giving itself the form it receives.

Broader Connections

• God’s alienation is at once receptivity and spontaneity, receiving the form He gives #corroborates (0.98) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 647
• God’s alienation in Hegel is simultaneously receptive and spontaneous, a plasticity rather than passivity. #corroborates (0.95) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 647
• God’s alienation and philosophical reason’s negativity are the same movement #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 756
• Religious representation itself is constituted by consciousness’s alienation from God #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 684
• Divine alienation is a temporalization, not a sign of incompleteness #expands (0.75)