Subjectivity cannot reside in its own being but haunts itself

Evidence

The feeling of self itself becomes a personal and specific feeling. Even if there is a possibility of bringing together feeling’s manifold material, that possibility itself becomes part of the objective content. The form needs to be the content of all that it forms: subjectivity does not reside in its own being, it ‘haunts’ itself. The soul is possessed by the possession of itself. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 374

Categorization

• XREF: This self-haunting structure is a striking bridge to neurological accounts of consciousness and to the reader’s plasticity work — the subject as its own foreign content. — connects to: An essence is radically severed from the single appearance that manifests it; The for-itself is necessarily haunted by value and its own possibilities; Presence to being is a negative internal bond that negates what it confronts — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 444 (+12 more)
• SEED: An essay angle: ‘the soul is possessed by the possession of itself’ as a way into explaining how mental self-surveillance and self-alienation work in plasticity terms.

Broader Connections

• Totality of being arises only through the detotalized for-itself #expands (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 585
• Being-in-itself can found its nothingness but never its being #qualifies (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 346