Spirit’s self-formation is a violent internal struggle unlike nature’s peaceful growth.

Evidence

Just as the soul, thanks to habit, ‘penetrates’ the body in ‘forming’ it, so spirit pervades its own sensuous existence and the corporeal reality of all its moments. When spirit renders its own substantial being fluid, the result is, again, simplification. Indeed, at first ‘spirit is at war with itself: it has to overcome itself as its most formidable obstacle. That development which in the sphere of nature is a peaceful growth, is, in that of spirit, a severe, mighty conflict with itself.’ — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1051

Categorization

• XREF: Soul-habit-body formation mirrors the plasticity theme running through Malabou’s whole project — habit as formative penetration of matter. — connects to: The unhappy consciousness produces its enemy from within its own self-struggle — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 1037; The formed self is a continual strain that dreads losing itself to other life. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1405; The enemy emerges from the self’s own self-negation, not from a true pair. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 449 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The formed self is a continual strain that dreads losing itself to other life. #corroborates (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1405
• Spirit’s self-certainty requires the crushing of gods and men in prior epochs. #corroborates (0.82)
• The unhappy consciousness produces its enemy from within its own self-struggle #corroborates (0.80) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 1037
• The enemy emerges from the self’s own self-negation, not from a true pair. #corroborates (0.78) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 449