Human expression liberates signification from its original natural economy

Evidence

If we avoid a hasty reading of the human relation to its habitus, then a patient reflection on the material will reveal that human expression does not reduce to a pre-constituted expressed. The economy of signification that appears at the end of the Anthropology has been dialectically liberated from the initial and natural economy of the sign which originally governs man. In the transition from one economy to the other, in a passage which involves the formation of our ‘plastic individuality’, it becomes possible to encounter the real role of language. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 546

Categorization

• XREF: The dialectical liberation of expression from the natural sign economy maps directly onto her plasticity concept — the brain’s formation through habit. — connects to: Language is spirit’s perfect expression while the human figure is only its first appearance — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 543; Decentering the subject displaces humanity from the origin of meaning; The body functions as a sign surpassed toward meaning
• DEFINE: Core definitional moment: ‘plastic individuality’ as the passage between two economies of signification.

Broader Connections

• The body functions as a sign surpassed toward meaning #expands (0.85)
• Decentering the subject displaces humanity from the origin of meaning #expands (0.80)