Individual subjectivity emerges through the soul’s progressive self-differentiation from universal nature

Evidence

The meaning of this division organizes itself in the process of the soul’s singularization which, from its beginning in the ‘universal’ (understood as ‘the immaterialism of nature’ or ‘simple ideal life’), moves progressively towards self-individuation until it becomes ‘singular self’. From the ‘sleep of spirit’ to the ‘soul as work of art’ the genesis of the individual is accomplished, that individual which, configured as the ‘Man’, finally stands forth in the guise of a statue. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 318

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the core plastic movement: originary substance differentiating into individual subject through self-identity, rupture, and return.
• XREF: connects to: Consciousness introduces differentiation, meaning, and plurality into undifferentiated Being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 40; The self is the individualized completion of concrete situated consciousness; The unified sense of self arose from internalized mastery of nature. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 298 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Self-feeling arises from the subject’s self-differentiating judgment on its own feelings #corroborates (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 372
• Personality arises from consciousness’s reflective self-presence, not from the Ego #corroborates (0.80)
• The drive to dominate external nature extends inward to the human self #complicates (0.72)