The possibility of alienation depends on the feeling of lost necessity.

Evidence

Dialectically sublating the ‘time form’, spirit cancels all tendency to question whether a wholly different origin might have been possible, whether there could have been a wholly different destination from the one that actually came to pass. At the stage of Absolute Knowledge, the time which is sublated – that empty time posted outside itself by consciousness, giving the unfolding of spirit the appearance of a ‘free contingent event’ – leaves us always time to think what might otherwise have been. In this fact, Hegel believes, there remains the possibility of alienation which, in principle, depends on the feeling of lost necessity. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1116

At the stage of Absolute Knowledge, the time which is sublated – that empty time posted outside itself by consciousness, giving the unfolding of spirit the appearance of a ‘free contingent event’ – leaves us always time to think what might otherwise have been. In this fact, Hegel believes, there remains the possibility of alienation which, in principle, depends on the feeling of lost necessity. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1116

Categorization

• QUESTION: Naming the mechanism that tips plastic receptivity into explosiveness — this ‘feeling of lost necessity’ reads as exactly the tipping condition the reader’s MOC thread is hunting.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1116
• XREF: connects to: The for-itself becomes itself only by assuming its alienated being-for-others — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 777; Freedom arises when necessity manifests its inner identity, not by its removal; Psychic fragmentation names the postmodern condition better than alienation does — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 241 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The for-itself becomes itself only by assuming its alienated being-for-others #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 777
• Freedom arises when necessity manifests its inner identity, not by its removal #expands (0.75)
• Psychic fragmentation names the postmodern condition better than alienation does #qualifies (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 241