Positing an inner referent makes interiority ineffable and merely intended

Evidence

This state of absolute transparency is the paradoxical result of a phantasm of opacity. Following the logic of this immediate ‘transformation into sign’, the interior becomes something ‘invisible’ which, although expressed by the organs, remains ineffable, non-existent, and merely intended. Given an interiority posited as referent, the phantasm of opacity must follow. This conception of the sort of expression generated by the referential illusion is precisely what Hegel understands as the negative of language, language, or a part of it, having come on the scene concurrently. In fact, the ‘individual characteristic of speech’, i.e. immediate physical expressiveness, precedes language itself as a consequence preceding its premisses. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 555

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does ‘immediate physical expressiveness precedes language’ cash out against later theorists of the body as language? The consequence-before-premise inversion is a curious dialectical claim.
• XREF: connects to: Loss of commonly held symbolic meaning generates a sense of immediacy — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 98

Broader Connections

• Loss of commonly held symbolic meaning generates a sense of immediacy #corroborates (0.85) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 98