Hegel’s subjectivity must incorporate madness, delirium and the primordial night

Evidence

However, if this were the case, and human subjectivity were for Hegel something immediate like a transparently reflecting crystal, how could it have a place for delirium, madness, the primordial night? Why would the anthropological development take so long, concluding with language rather than beginning with it? And on this account, what would be the role of habit? — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 545

Categorization

• XREF: ‘The primordial night’ here directly anticipates Malabou’s later concept of the brain’s originary trauma/plastic night in her neuroscience work. — connects to: Hegel equates mental and physical illness as shared paralysis of fluid wholeness. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 379; Hegel’s Self is a primordial synthetic instance prior to the I-self — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1084
• DEFINE: Key corrective: Hegelian subjectivity is not transparency but a formed response to the night of the pathological.

Broader Connections

• Hegel’s Self is a primordial synthetic instance prior to the I-self #expands (0.70) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1084