Plasticity also means the ability to change one’s own determination

Evidence

The second limit on the range of the concept of plasticity is marked, inversely, by an ”open” or unrestrained definition. According to this second limit, plasticity designates a much more effective transformative ability. This involves, not an infinite modifiability—we have not yet come back around to polymorphism—but a possibility of displacing or transforming the mark or the imprint, of changing determination in some way. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 64

Categorization

• DEFINE: The open/second meaning of plasticity — transformation of form, which flexibility (mere receptivity) cannot do.
• XREF: connects to: Plasticity names the concept’s reflexive power to both give and receive its own figures — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 68; Plastic individuals become what they essentially were and wanted to be; Plasticity’s three determinations structure the modern character of self-consciousness and its self-determination. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 649 (+2 more)