Plasticity names the union of universal substance with individual form

Evidence

Psychosomatic unity results from an auto-interpretation independent of any referent. This is shown by the ‘plastic individuals’. The adjective ‘plastic’ indicates the nature of what is at once universal and individual. If Hegel calls spirituality ‘plastic’, it is on the grounds that it is ‘at the same time substance and, within its universality, individual’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 583

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precise definition: plastic as ‘at the same time substance and, within its universality, individual’ — the core definitional content the reader wants.
• XREF: Direct bridge to Malabou’s own thesis that plasticity sustains a tension Hegel’s text does not resolve — and to the reader’s brain work, where substance+individual maps to neural structure and embodied subject. — connects to: Plasticity is the mutual informing of universal and particular in the exemplary individual — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 237; Plastic development requires substance to contain its future actualizations virtually — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 477; Plastic individuality synthesizes universal substance with individual form — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 583 (+2 more)