Hegel treats embodiment as the process whereby spirit’s moments become bodily forms.

Evidence

The mutual fashioning of soul and body has led to the formation of man as the sensuous medium of spirit, and this same process illuminates the movement of substance’s determination of itself. It is this latter movement which Hegel conceives of as spiritual incorporation or embodiment. In the Aesthetics, he says that spirit’s various moments, the moments in its own development, are equal to ‘bodily forms (Leiblichkeit) of spiritual individuality’. Hence, the process of substance in its self-determination finds itself translated into the sensuous through this ‘psychosomatic hermeneutic’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 595

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘psychosomatic hermeneutic’: Hegel’s translation of substance’s self-determination into sensuous/bodily form.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s brain-work interest: the notion that spirit’s development is only actual through bodily incarnation parallels the embodied-cognition framing of neural plasticity. — connects to: The soul becomes both substance and subject in Hegel’s analysis. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 359; Hegel ties a people’s character to local spirits expressed in occupation and body.; For Hegel spirit is not merely self-contained thought but essentially self-revelation and objectivity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 815 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• For Hegel spirit is not merely self-contained thought but essentially self-revelation and objectivity #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 815
• Man’s habit-forming power exemplifies spirit’s incarnation in time. #exemplifies (0.85)
• Repeated bodily practices form the self rather than merely express it #corroborates (0.75) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1022