Divine self-presence is opened up by an internal distance rather than merely broken

Evidence

But how can this specular structure be understood in logical terms? Divine self-presence is interrupted, or rather opened up, by an inner distance. We can interpret this through the concept of the substance-subject and its movement, a movement in which God negates himself as immediate and substantial power, positing himself as other in the Incarnation which sees his birth as ‘subject’, before returning in the form of singularity to absolute substance. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 858

Categorization

• XREF: The substance-subject movement — self-negation, going into otherness, return to substance — is the core dialectical machinery that plasticity generalizes to all substance, including the brain. — connects to: Self-presence requires an internal separation that is itself nothing; Personality arises from consciousness’s reflective self-presence, not from the Ego; Selfness arises when the possible I am is reflected as absent-presence (+15 more)
• DEFINE: Frames the Incarnation as the substance-subject dialectic: God negates himself as substance, becomes subject as other, then returns as singular absolute.

Broader Connections

• Consciousness mirrors divine self-relation rather than constituting it #qualifies (0.85)
• Self-awareness lifts the I above itself while it remains itself #qualifies (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 814
• Reflective consciousness alone can dissociate itself from what it posits #qualifies (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 330
• Reflection deepens the reflective-reflected split beyond self-consciousness #expands (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 802
• Presence to being defines the For-itself’s fundamental ontological structure #contradicts (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 440