Identity forms only by struggling against its own structural self-destruction

Evidence

Self-fashioning implies at once the elaboration of a form, a face, a figure, and the effacement of another form, another face, another figure, which precede them or are contemporaneous with them. On the one hand, the coincidence between formation and disappearance of form is diachronic: a past form cedes place to a new form, and one thus changes identity or ”self” in the course of time. On the other hand, the coincidence between formation and disappearance of form is synchronic: the threat of the explosion of form structurally inhabits every form. All current identity maintains itself only at the cost of a struggle against its autodestruction: it is in this sense that identity is dialectical in nature. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 233

Categorization

• QUESTION: Is this ‘necessary autodestruction of form’ claim actually argued neurologically or just asserted as a dialectical postulate? Worth checking against the synaptic-pruning evidence he cites.
• XREF: connects to: Depersonalized, synthetic voices can enact an escape from identity’s pressures — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1326; Politicized identity groups invest deeply in their own powerlessness to ground their existence — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1935