Habit-based reversible translation of soul and body grounds the Self’s relation to the world

Evidence

In constructing the mechanism that allows man to liberate himself from a phantasmatic relation to referentiality, repetition and exercise play an important part. 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. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 573

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to Anidjar question: habit is the mechanism converting passive receptivity into the agential ‘Self’ without fusion. — connects to: Habit’s reversible soul-body translation constitutes the Self and awakens consciousness. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 573; Habit produces the plastic individual as a unity of soul and body — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 582