Plasticity means formative change through rupture, not smooth continuous adaptation

Evidence

We must consider that in a certain sense the brain does not obey itself, that it manufactures events, that there can be an excess in the system, an explosive part that, without being pathological, refuses to obey. We have seen that plasticity allows us to combine the thought of a sculpture of the self with that of transdifferentiation. To exist is to be able to change difference while respecting the difference of change: the difference between continuous change, without limits, without adventure, without negativity, and a formative change that tells an effective story and proceeds by ruptures, conflicts, dilemmas. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 258

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharply distinguishes plasticity (formative change with rupture, conflict, dilemma) from mere continuous change — exactly the conceptual line the reader wants to hold.
• XREF: connects to: Destructive plasticity forms identity through deconstitution, not preservation — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 202; Destructive plasticity creates new identity precisely through annihilation of the old — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 1495; Plasticity is suppleness that is neither passion nor passivity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 290 (+9 more)