Spiritual simplification is both a death-bringing erasure and an organizing abbreviation

Evidence

The ‘young girl’, the ‘spirit of the Fate that presents us with these works of art’, is an allegory of the principle of spiritual simplification. It is a principle which can appear simultaneously as a power of thanatos, effacing primal life, and as a power of assemblage, abbreviating what it collects, giving it the form of a logical essence. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1021

Categorization

• XREF: The double character — destructive and generative at once — mirrors plasticity’s double valence, which the reader is tracking through the book. — connects to: Simplification makes determinations both more and less universal, mourning what it suppresses — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1058; Spiritual development is simultaneously an appearance and an explosion of form — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1311

Broader Connections

• Simplification makes determinations both more and less universal, mourning what it suppresses #expands (0.88) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1058
• Spiritual development is simultaneously an appearance and an explosion of form #qualifies (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1311