Mood medications aim to restore mobility and expunge identity rigidity

Evidence

Mood medications, or ”thymoregulators,” thus seem to have the function of reducing vulnerability, chronic disturbance, and psychical precariousness by targeting the neuronal networks involved in initiative, stimulation, dynamism, and well-being. Medications should give back the appetite for mobility, the capacity to rid oneself of rigidity and of fixity in one’s identity. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 175

Categorization

• XREF: ‘Rid oneself of rigidity and fixity in identity’ sets up flexibility as the erasure of fixed form — contrast with plasticity which gives AND receives form. Example par excellence of flexibility-only-receives.
• ADDENDUM: Could support the immodesty/complaints piece? Not really — better fits a plasticity essay on flexibility-as-self-erasure.