The older girl’s growth becomes smooth adaptation instead of upheaval

Evidence

The plasticity that situates subjectivity between maintenance and construction or production of newness is not smooth. The ”chain” that leads from elementary life to the autonomy of a free self, capable not only of integrating the disturbances arriving from the exterior without dissolving itself but also of creating itself out of them, of making its own history, is a movement full of turbulence. Homeostatic energy and self-generating energy are obviously not of the same kind. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 250 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Puberty converts the girl’s imagined future passivity into a settled bodily fate of waiting — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 832; The girl’s transition to womanhood replaces wonder with cold ambition; The older girl adapts to reality and becomes less internally divided (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The older girl adapts to reality and becomes less internally divided #exemplifies (0.85)
• Transition from homeostasis to self-generation involves rupture, not smooth continuity #contradicts (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 250
• Transformative change is gradual within continuities, not clean breaks #corroborates (0.80)
• Puberty’s bodily changes alienate the girl from herself and the world #contradicts (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 835