The more the self forms itself, the more it is dispossessed into madness

Evidence

It is clear that in the word ‘crisis’ we hear the double meaning of the term ‘judgement’ – as a rupture and as a decision. The self-critique of the Anthropology is a long and complex process. In fact, the further the ‘self’ advances in the movement which constitutes its own formation, the more it finds itself dispossessed of itself, to the point of becoming truly mad. It seems that spirit does not leave its initial state of self-hypnosis, its original slumber, except to sink further into alienation. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 344

Categorization

• DEFINE: Unpacks ‘crisis’ as fused rupture-and-decision, joining the concept of judgement to self-formation.
• XREF: The dispossession-through-self-formation echoes plasticity’s self-othering across this book’s earlier chapters.