Puberty alters a girl’s sensory relation to the world before she understands it

Evidence

In the process of individuation, these ‘natural changes’ represent a higher stage. These already begin to manifest the difference between identity and alterity. Hence, these natural alterations can be seen as an early experience of temporality. However, because they are simply natural, such alterations have not yet achieved their full measure of actuality. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 341 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

A population including young and elderly listeners would therefore exhibit a large variability of thresholds in the monaural tasks, which would lead to improved sensitivity of the correlation analyses and provide further insights as to the roles of monaural processing in ITD or ILD discrimination. … It has been reported that sensitivities to the temporal structure and intensity of stimuli decline with age (e.g., Hopkins and Moore 2011 ). — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1026 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

This naturally had nothing to do with the little sexual pleasures of childhood, the satisfaction I felt, for example, straddling a certain chair in the dining room or caressing myself before falling asleep … The only common characteristic between the feeling and the pleasure is that I carefully hid them both from those around me … My love for this young man consisted in thinking of him before falling asleep and imagining marvelous stories … In Privas, I was in love with all the department heads of my father’s office … I was never very deeply hurt by their departure, because they were barely more than a pretext for my amorous musings … In the evening in bed I got my revenge for too much youth and shyness. I prepared everything very carefully, I did not have any trouble making him present to me, but it was a question of transforming myself, me, so that I could see myself from the interior because I became her, and stopped being I. First, I was pretty and eighteen years old. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 709 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Puberty transforms the girl’s body from familiar self into strange flesh. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 738; Puberty converts the girl’s imagined future passivity into a settled bodily fate of waiting — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 832; Puberty’s bodily changes alienate the girl from herself and the world — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 835 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Natural bodily changes constitute an early, deficient experience of temporality #corroborates (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 341
• Adolescent girls eroticize imagined self-transformation rather than actual sexual encounters #expands (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 709
• Age-related sensory decline offers a natural experiment for correlational analysis. #exemplifies (0.75) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1026
• Hearing sensitivity degrades with age and is lower in early childhood #exemplifies (0.72)