The cerebral self constitutes mortality internally without achieving self-knowledge

Evidence

Cerebral auto-affection is the biological, logical, and affective process by which finitude is constituted within the living core of subjectivity without ever being able to become the knowledge of a subject. The cerebral self represents itself without presenting itself. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 1038

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines cerebral auto-affection as the core Malabou concept for this chapter, contrasting with Freudian auto-affection.
• XREF: connects to: Neuroscientific findings remain inert without a new understanding of self — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 219; Death awareness emerges around age three with self-consciousness — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of…, 124; Unreflective consciousness holds implicit self-awareness without knowledge (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Popular familiarity with brain facts does not yield self-knowledge #corroborates (0.80)
• Unreflective consciousness holds implicit self-awareness without knowledge #expands (0.78)
• Neuroscientific findings remain inert without a new understanding of self #complicates (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 219
• People pursue self-destructive trends most avidly when death thoughts are unconscious #exemplifies (0.72) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 661
• Death awareness emerges around age three with self-consciousness #expands (0.70) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 124