Divine plasticity is the new modality of self-determination via self-alienation

Evidence

By speaking of a ‘plasticity’ in God, I want to insist precisely on the very factor of the time or temporality of Christianity. Through this aspect, a new conception of self-determination becomes visible. This new modality of the donation and reception of form discovers its fundamental concept in alienation (Entäußerung): subjectivity determines itself by distancing itself from itself, becoming other than it is. Its form is representation (Vorstellung). And the phenomenon that performs the role of hypotyposis – the translation of the spiritual into the sensory – is the Incarnation. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 833

Categorization

• DEFINE: Specifies that plasticity-in-God is defined through Entäußerung (alienation), representation (Vorstellung), and the Incarnation as hypotyposis — mapping the plastic triad onto Trinitarian structure.
• XREF: The triad donation-of-form/reception-of-form/self-distancing parallels the reader’s MOC question about which conditions tip plastic receptivity into plastic explosiveness. — connects to: Divine plasticity articulates through self-determination, sensuous translation, and representation. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 899; Divine alienation manifests a new ontological mode of time, not lack — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 822