Hegel’s soul individuation includes pathological regressions, not smooth progress

Evidence

If the anthropological development appears to be a progressive illumination, it does produce some abrupt returns to obscurity, some moments of trial and error, some aberrations. The spirit that awakens knows also crises of somnambulism, delirious manias; at times it consults the stars or magnetizers, at times it weeps endlessly over those it has lost whom it never managed properly to mourn. It haunts its own depths, its own night, failing to commit to the individuation which will be its definitive splendour. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 319

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how do these aberrations (failed mourning, somnambulism) connect to the ch5/ch16 theme of the event that escapes anticipation? Possible bridge between the reader’s plasticity/explosiveness question and the pathology of individuation.

Related

• Hegel distinguishes the feeling soul from mere natural individuality. (similarity 0.79)