The magical relation is influence sublated into spirit controlling spirit’s thoughts

Evidence

The ‘magical relation’ is the dialectically sublated determination of influence. There is no longer a body which exerts the force of action at a distance over another body, but a spirit which attracts another spirit whose course of thought and actions it determines. Here an individual relates to itself as if it were a being external and controlled, an ‘other’ it has deprived of freedom. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 367

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows how magic is not abolished but aufgehoben — a causal relation stripped of physical mediation, internalized as spirit-to-spirit determination.
• XREF: Echoes the reader’s brain work: the sense of being externally controlled while the controlling ‘other’ is one’s own deprived-of-freedom self maps onto dissociative disorders and the plastic self’s capacity to alienate itself. — connects to: Psychic states act on each other magically and resist intellectualistic causal explanation; Magic is defined as influence acting without objective mediation — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 366