Symbols present self-repetitive nature as eternal and endlessly renewed

Evidence

The in itself and for itself of the eternal consists in its selfimparting (sich aufzuschließen), self-determining (zu bestimmen), in judging (zu urteilen) and positing itself in the form of a difference (sich als Unterscheidenes seiner zu stehen); but this difference, this distinction, is also always and eternally sublated, so that in and for itself the eternal is reconciled with itself in its return to self; only thus is it spirit. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 700 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The eternal becomes spirit by self-differentiating and sublating its own difference — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 700; Memory poetically completes the past self with a plenitude of being; Symbolism arises when modernity severs objects from their human labor origins — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 396 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The eternal becomes spirit by self-differentiating and sublating its own difference #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 700
• Memory poetically completes the past self with a plenitude of being #corroborates (0.72)