God’s alienation is at once receptivity and spontaneity, receiving the form He gives

Evidence

A close reading of Revealed Religion forbids that refusal. 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

• XREF: This is the core plastic structure — receiving and giving form simultaneously — directly bridging to her neurological concept of plasticity. — connects to: God’s incomprehensibility means he resists possession, not that reason fails; Divine alienation is a temporalization, not a sign of incompleteness; God creates the very temporality into which the Incarnation enters — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 866 (+3 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: Alienation as simultaneously receiving and giving form resists simple summary; it’s the load-bearing paradox that the whole chapter turns on and that her plasticity project rests on.

Broader Connections

• Divine alienation is a temporalization, not a sign of incompleteness #expands (0.88)
• God’s incomprehensibility means he resists possession, not that reason fails #expands (0.82)
• God creates the very temporality into which the Incarnation enters #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 866