Representation is born from the dialectical suppression of immediate sensuous imagery

Evidence

The first part of the phrase refers back to the previous moment of Absolute Spirit, Art, in which the spiritual content is presented in the immediate, sensuous or intuitive, form of the image. The dialectical suppression of this immediacy marks, psychologically, the birth of representation (Vorstellung). And representation is, for Hegel, the medium through which the religious moment of spirit has its immediate and initial expression. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 659

When the immediacy and sensuousness of shape and knowledge is sublated, God is, in point of content, the essential and actual spirit of nature and spirit, while in point of form (der Form nach) he is, first of all, presented to subjective knowledge as a representation (Vorstellung). … The first part of the phrase refers back to the previous moment of Absolute Spirit, Art, in which the spiritual content is presented in the immediate, sensuous or intuitive, form of the image. The dialectical suppression of this immediacy marks, psychologically, the birth of representation (Vorstellung). And representation is, for Hegel, the medium through which the religious moment of spirit has its immediate and initial expression. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 658

Categorization

• DEFINE: Ties representation’s birth to the sublation of art’s sensory immediacy — a key dialectical transition.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s work on plasticity: the movement from immediate image to representational mediation is a shaping/formation process. — connects to: All systems of representation spatialize and thereby distort lived experience — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1293; Mental imagery itself requires a nihilating withdrawal of consciousness; Dialectical sublation operates as speculative mourning over past selves.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 659; Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 658

Broader Connections

• All systems of representation spatialize and thereby distort lived experience #expands (0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1293
• Mental imagery itself requires a nihilating withdrawal of consciousness #complicates (0.72)