Interiorization of natural time transforms mere sequence into subjective synthetic unity

Evidence

This interpenetrability of the psychic and the physical has immediate consequences for time. When nature passes over to its second nature, this implies, by the same token, that ‘natural time’ – the simple exteriority of moments linked to one another as if in a pure linear sequence – is interiorized and acquires a totally different shape. Subjectivity, henceforth capable of appropriating difference to itself, now appears as what it truly is: the originary synthetic unity linking its determinations and, at the same moment, putting them into sequential form. When the soul succeeds in idealizing the corporeal, it also gains the power to make itself a ‘simple and ideal unity’, that is to say, to be only with itself. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 392

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘second nature’ and ‘natural time’ as the ground of the interiorized, synthesized temporality of subjectivity.
• XREF: Connects directly to Malabou’s plasticity concept as the reader’s theoretical root for her brain work on neural plasticity and temporality. — connects to: Crossing into human time transforms fragmented space into coherent place. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 2015; Life’s self-transcendence makes time real, unlike analytical separation of tenses — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 809; Psychic temporality is constituted by reflection, not original temporality — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 549 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Reflection reveals temporality as the historicity of the for-itself #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 521
• Life’s self-transcendence makes time real, unlike analytical separation of tenses #expands (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 809
• Nature is constructed by the mind’s synthetic activity from raw sense perceptions #expands (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 167
• Psychic temporality is constituted by reflection, not original temporality #responds-to (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 549
• Personal identity depends on language’s temporal unification of past, present, and future #corroborates (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 98
• Timetables impose abstract time onto bodily activity as an external frame #qualifies (0.72) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 259