God’s self-alienation manifests a new mode of time, not lack

Evidence

To insist on the fact that the representational process is not only a moment in individual spirit but also and in the first place a movement in God, allows us to conceive the divine alienation not as evidence of something uncompleted, but as the manifestation of a temporalization. For Hegel, the Trinity in its internal movement is not structured by a dynamic of lack – a primordial insatiability calling to be filled – but by the appearance of a new ontological guise of time. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 822

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Runs directly against the divine-lack reading flagged earlier (ch83-85); reader can map onto enmity theory where the enemy-as-lack reading misdescribes productive plastic othering.

Related

• Divine alienation manifests a new ontological mode of time, not lack (similarity 0.91)
• Divine alienation is a temporalization, not a sign of incompleteness (similarity 0.90)
• Hegelian alienation is an epoch-specific temporal process, not an atemporal category (similarity 0.85)
• Divine subjectivity is a process of temporalization, not a fixed presence (similarity 0.85)
• Hegel’s alienation is a historically specific, modern-Christian concept, not an eternal one (similarity 0.83)
• Alienation is a distinctively modern concept never applied to Greek divinity (similarity 0.83)
• Hegel’s radical divine negativity expresses God’s plasticity, not lack or passivity (similarity 0.83)
• Hegel inserts time rather than lack into divine subjectivity. (similarity 0.83)
• God’s alienation in Hegel is simultaneously receptive and spontaneous, a plasticity rather than passivity. (similarity 0.82)
• Divine alienation is simultaneously receptivity and spontaneity in God. (similarity 0.82)
• Sublating the time form leaves an emptiness that enables imagining alternatives (similarity 0.82)
• Divine negativity manifests plasticity, not lack or passivity (similarity 0.82)
• Immediate indeterminacy must divest itself by necessity rather than love. (similarity 0.81)
• For God to create, God must suffer lack rather than be superabundant (similarity 0.81)
• God’s self-parting is the condition that starts history itself. (similarity 0.81)