The habitus expresses the inner either too much or too little, never exactly

Evidence

Human habitus signifies the fact that it signifies nothing. Indeed, as Hegel puts it, ‘we can say with equal truth that these expressions express the inner too much, as that they do so too little’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 559

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Defines the paradoxical status of habitus as exterior sign of interiority: it both reveals and cannot reveal the inner.