Freedom depends on theorizing the plasticity of transition

Evidence

If we do not think through this transformation or this plasticity, we dodge the most important question, which is that of freedom. If, in effect, the life of the brain is played out between program and deprogramming, between determinism and the possibility of changing difference, then the transition from the proto-self to the self is indeed the transition from the undifferentiated to the possibility of a transdifferentiation of self-the self, between receiving and giving form, being at once what one inherits and what one has created. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 229

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the reader’s concern about plasticity as ‘giving and receiving form, and can explode form’ — freedom rides on plasticity’s capacity to exceed mere reception. — connects to: Marcuse planned a systematic theory of transitions between social systems — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 26; Plasticity and habit define man’s place between animal and divine limits — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 317; Divine negativity manifests plasticity, not lack or passivity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 759 (+4 more)