Illness arises when a part turns against the whole, arresting its fluidity

Evidence

The organism finds itself ill, when one of its systems or one of its organs, troubled by a conflict with the forces of the inorganic, retreats into itself and continues to aim its own actions antagonistically against the interests of the whole, and the fluidity of the whole comprised by all the processes moving through the individual parts is thereby disturbed and brought to a halt. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 380

Categorization

• QUESTION: Hegel’s illness model treats a part’s self-retreat and antagonism toward the whole as the defining mechanism — provocative parallel to the enemy/friend construction question: when does a party within a system become its enemy?
• XREF: Connects across chapters to the earlier madness/diseased-soul analysis (ch44: self-feeling never fully separates from corporeity) and to the plasticity frame (a part refusing re-integration = failed plasticity).