Self-feeling arises from the subject’s self-differentiating judgment on its own feelings
Evidence
The sensitive totality is, in its capacity as an individual, essentially the tendency to distinguish itself in itself, and to wake up to the judgment in itself, in virtue of which it has particular feelings and stands as a subject in respect of these aspects of itself. The subject as such gives these feelings a place as its own in itself. In these private and personal sentiments it is immersed, and at the same time, because of the ‘ideality’ of the particulars, it combines itself in them as a subjective unit. In this way it is selffeeling. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 372
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines selffeeling as the subject’s active self-differentiation and re-unification, a core move in the plasticity argument.
- XREF: connects to: Shame precedes reflection and arises from an opaque self-relation; Individual subjectivity emerges through the soul’s progressive self-differentiation from universal nature — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 318; The Romantic self is constituted through successive contrasting experiences — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 540 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- The Romantic self is constituted through successive contrasting experiences
#expands(0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 540 - Reflection deepens the reflective-reflected split beyond self-consciousness
#expands(0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 802 - The self fragments into subject and object when stress ruptures immediate experience
#exemplifies(0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 22