Habit produces the plastic individual as a unity of soul and body

Evidence

Transformed by the work of habit, soul and body form the sensory medium of the spirit. The individual as singularity, a realized unity of the formal universality of the spiritual determinations and the particularity of somatic affects, arrives through the process of mutual translation between psychic and corporeal manifestations. Individuality is from this point on a ‘plastic individuality’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 582

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘plastic individuality’ as the outcome of habit-mediated psychosomatic translation — core of the reader’s plasticity concept.
• XREF: The ‘mutual translation between psychic and corporeal manifestations’ anticipates Malabou’s later plastic-brain work on neuronal embodiment of experience. — connects to: Habit is the organism’s lifelong effort to synthesize internal and external differences into unity. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 500; Habit’s reversible soul-body translation constitutes the Self and awakens consciousness. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 573; Habit enables the reversibility of psychic and physical attributes. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 571 (+7 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The key move: habit is not mechanical repetition but the very process by which an embodied singular self-forms — a paradigm-shifting reframing that could ground the reader’s whole plasticity framework.

Broader Connections

• Habit is a genuine plasticity translating psychic and somatic into one another #expands (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 315
• Habit is the plastic operation rendering the body fully pervious #expands (0.88)
• Habit is the organic being’s effort to maintain unity through synthesizing differences #expands (0.85)
• Habit-based reversible translation of soul and body grounds the Self’s relation to the world #expands (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 573
• Habit is an intentionally-produced alteration that defines how humans acquire form #expands (0.75)