Plastic reception requires assimilating form into substance, unlike wax’s passive impression

Evidence

The wax does not, indeed, take in the form, for the impression remains on it as external figure (äußerliche Gestaltung) and contour, without being a form of its real essence (keine Form seines Wesen). If it were to become such, it would cease to be wax. The soul, on the contrary, assimilates (assimiliert) this form into its own substance, and for this reason the soul is in itself, to a certain extent, the sum of all that is perceived by the senses. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 436

Categorization

• XREF: Directly continues the plasticity-vs-malleability distinction extracted from chapter 29 — wax is the emblem of malleability, not plasticity.