Plasticity spans from rigid determination of form to total freedom from form

Evidence

Thus, with plasticity we are dealing with a concept that is not contradictory but graduated, because the very plasticity of its meaning situates it at the extremes of a formal necessity (the irreversible character of formation: determination) and of a remobilization of form (the capacity to form oneself otherwise, to displace, even to nullify determination: freedom). It is this complex, this synthesis, this semantic wealth, that we ought to keep in mind throughout our analysis. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 67

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes plasticity’s spectrum from determination to freedom — the core distinction the reader needs.
• XREF: connects to: A closed system’s openness to modification while transforming itself is plasticity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1283; Plasticity names both malleability and the power to give form — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1310