For Hegel the birth of the I involves feeling oneself as an other

Evidence

But the gradual formation of the ‘I’ is paradoxically accompanied by a loss of fluidity, leading to ‘ruin and disaster within the conscious spirit’. This crisis results from the fact that the subject, being constituted in a free relation to the self, feels at the same time like ‘an other’, and this tension pushes it into a state of ‘trembling (durchzittern)’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 348

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Hegel’s notion of ‘trembling’ (durchzittern) as the phenomenological state of being constituted as both self and other.
• STORYSTEM: The ‘trembling’ state of a subject who is simultaneously free and alien to itself could seed a character whose selfhood is literally the oscillation between two selves.
• DEEPTHINKING: The paradox that self-formation is self-loss — the more one becomes oneself, the more one is an other — is a genuinely dense, nuance-resistant idea worth prolonged meditation.
• XREF: connects to: Hegel distinguishes the feeling soul from mere natural individuality.; Hegel’s Self is a primordial synthetic instance prior to the I-self — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1084; The Other is constituted by negation as the self which is not myself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 675

Broader Connections

• The Other is constituted by negation as the self which is not myself #expands (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 675