Necessity forgets that its own activity posited its passivity

Evidence

There is one fact which makes this necessity what it is: grounding itself, necessity is never its own ground, but conversely experiences itself as radically passive in relation to itself. Although it has its source within itself it feels this to be independent of itself. Necessity forgets its own origin. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1107

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Necessity experiences itself as radically passive in relation to itself and forgets its own origin — this self-forgetting of what one’s own activity has posited is an extraordinarily dense, paradigm-shifting claim about subjectivity, self-grounding, and alienation. Top-tier material for the plasticity concept.
• XREF: Directly connects to the reader’s brain work: the same structure of passivity posited by one’s own activity, then forgotten, maps onto plasticity and neural determinism — we feel our formation as given, not posited. — connects to: The body is necessary to the for-itself yet manifests its contingency — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 839; Doing requires an in-itself indifferent to the action performed on it
• SEED: An essay angle: ‘Necessity forgets its own origin’ as a figure for the neuro-self who experiences its own formation as fate — plasticity as self-forgotten self-positing.