The primitive psychic form, not later developments, is imperishable

Evidence

As we can see, this persistent form is the primitive. The notion of primitivity thus gives content to the concept of the initial form of psychic life. The primitive, and not what descends from it, is imperishable. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 1320

Categorization

• XREF: This is the load-bearing concept Malabou will contest: the primitivity that psychiatric illness ‘returns to’ versus the new form blasted open by brain damage, which has no prior form to return to.