Habit abolishes the partition between interior and exterior

Evidence

In so far as the influence of habit causes a translation of soul into body and body into soul, these two will form a unity-in-separation, an absolute union without fusion, a union which forms, by its selfreferentiality, the structure of speculative meaning. Between container and contained, a reversible relation abolishes the partition between exterior and interior, allowing soul – henceforth constituted as a ‘Self’ – to relate to the world, the real externality. From here the next step is the awakening of consciousness. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 573

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Habit as the structural genesis of the Self and of speculative meaning, via reversibility and unity-in-separation without fusion — dense dialectical machinery.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does this ‘absolute union without fusion’ of soul/body via habit prefigure contemporary plasticity debates about identity and brain change?
• XREF: connects to: Having a place requires not being wholly absorbed in that place — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1169; Habit is the organic being’s effort to maintain unity through synthesizing differences; Social precepts can become interiorized until external compulsion becomes unnecessary — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 6435 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Habit is the organic being’s effort to maintain unity through synthesizing differences #expands (0.85)
• Social precepts can become interiorized until external compulsion becomes unnecessary #qualifies (0.75) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 6435