The end of the subject-object gap reveals a more originary mode of becoming

Evidence

Absolute Knowledge, confirming the identity of substance and subject, introduces a relation between knowing and the known unlike any that has gone before. For this knowledge does not emerge from a new formation of this subject–object gap; instead it arrives in the suspension of that gap. Hence that gap, emerging when the subject separates itself from all its determinations in order to ‘see them coming’ (les voir venir), is neither definitive nor fundamental. Consequently, the end of the gap obviously does not mean the closure of all perspective. On the contrary: this end reveals, in the process of becoming-fluid, a more fundamental mode of occurrence (structure de l’advenir plus originaire) than the rigid and fixed way in which the subject distanced itself from its own determinations, its own accidents. The ‘I think’ – the pure certainty of self – is simply one moment, lasting only for a certain period of time in the deployment of subjectivity itself. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1081

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that the ‘I think’ is merely one temporary moment — an epoch — in the deployment of subjectivity, and that ending the gap does not close perspective but opens a more originary structure of becoming, resists easy summary.
• XREF: The ‘structure of advenir more originary than the subject’s self-distancing’ connects to Deleuze’s becoming and to the reader’s interest in process-based rather than substance-based accounts of the self. — connects to: Reason works as conscious projection that holds subject and object apart.; Pregnancy collapses the subject-object opposition that normally drives transcendence — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1449; Intentionality displaces the subject by merging it with the world — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 408 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Subject and object letting-go of fixed positions liberates previously imprisoned philosophical energy #expands (0.90)
• The self fragments into subject and object when stress ruptures immediate experience #complicates (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 22