Man is blind to his own lack of an originary nature.

Evidence

Accordingly, the individual first considers himself to be a being divided into an ‘exteriority’ – the body – and an ‘interiority’ – his inner being, which Hegel calls in the Phenomenology of Spirit its ‘intrinsically determined original character’. In the section ‘Observing Reason’, this blindness of man to his own lack of an ‘originary’ nature is brought into view. There is no way that the human organism can be treated as something simply natural and instrumental, as we understand from the dual meaning of the Greek organon, at once an organ and an instrument. Yet the difficulty is that man does not know this about himself. ‘The simple lines of the hand, the timbre and volume of the voice’, the features of his physiognomy, although these do not predetermine the individual from birth, seem to possess the power as signs to express and manifest the inner self. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 552

Categorization

• XREF: Organon-as-organ-and-instrument duality plus the blindness-to-non-origin is precisely the kind of institutional/discursive misrecognition the reader’s MOC thread asks about — repeated body-signs (hand lines, voice, physiognomy) are treated as scripture of an inner self that does not exist.