Pathology can be identity-forming through superabundance of disease.

Evidence

There is no doubt that Sacks has developed the most profound scientific approach to the link between pathological construction and destruction. The ideas that pathology would be world-forming and that the identity of the patient could be fashioned by the excess or superabundance of the disease itself incontestably situate psychopathology on the way toward construction through destruction. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 3899

Categorization

• DEFINE: The core Malabou thesis — construction through destruction — gets its clearest positive statement via Sacks here.
• XREF: connects to: Alzheimer’s produces a new identity rather than merely diminishing a person. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 53

Broader Connections

• Alzheimer’s produces a new identity rather than merely diminishing a person. #epitomizes (0.95) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 53