Plasticity names the concept’s reflexive power to both give and receive its own figures

Evidence

The concept gives itself or receives from itself its own sensuous figures, its own rational imagination, its own intellectual intuition, etc. This giving and receiving, this giving to oneself to receive, which is the very process of plasticity, the very movement of being as becoming-plastic, this would be the speculative and reflexive power of the Hegelian concept. The Hegelian concept assimilates itself and exceeds in itself the opposition between giving and receiving, between giving and taking. It is here that we could find its ontological plasticity, at once its essence and its schema, the historical schematization of its being. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 68

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definition of plasticity as the Hegelian concept’s reflexive giving-and-receiving, the movement of being-as-becoming-plastic.
• XREF: Connects to reader’s brain-work interest: plasticity as self-schematizing historical process maps onto neural plasticity as self-organization. — connects to: Plasticity names the unity of spontaneity and receptivity in giving and receiving form; Plasticity means both receiving and giving form, unlike mere malleability — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 39; Plasticity also means the ability to change one’s own determination — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 64 (+10 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Plasticity names the unity of spontaneity and receptivity in giving and receiving form #expands (0.92)
• Plasticity means both receiving and giving form, unlike mere malleability #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 39
• Plasticity also means the ability to change one’s own determination #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 64
• Plasticity holds together originary attachment and the capacity to abandon fixed form. #expands (0.80)
• The intellect’s capacity to receive and give form originates its plasticity #expands (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 401
• Plasticity holds origin and self-abandonment together in one capacity #expands (0.75)