Resilience forms a subject between biology and social context

Evidence

Resilience thus appears as “both a synchronic and a diachronic process” that brings “developmental biological forces into articulation with the social context in order to create a self-representation that makes possible the historicization of the subject.”^1 Or further: resilience “should not only be sought inside the person, nor within his environment, but between the two, because it ceaselessly weaves processes of intimate becoming into processes of social becoming.” — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 3798

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Cyrulnik’s resilience is a between-domain process that historicizes the subject.
  • XREF: connects to: Biology represents what social engineering cannot yet alter — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 186; The situation resembles an evolutionary environment structuring adaptation — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 444; Social-environmental supports sustain behavior change that motivation alone cannot (+6 more)

Broader Connections