The self’s auto-positioning necessity is itself a contingent, unfounded fact

Evidence

We could be tempted here to object, in a classical or traditional manner, that it is still an activity which poses passivity, that this Setzung, this position, this auto-position, this presupposition of the self is still or already a necessary and automatic act of this ipseity. But Malabou entices this necessity into its own abyss, the abyss where it loses itself, that is to say, into its own necessity, the necessity of necessity, which would be a fact or a Faktum, the fact of a necessity which remains as a fact, in itself, not necessary, and in any case not comprehensible as the necessity which he founds by depriving it of its own foundation. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 127

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies how plasticity dissolves activity/passivity into ‘passivity posited by its own activity’ without remainder of a founding act.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s question about plastic receptivity tipping into explosiveness — the unfounded fact of self-necessity is where agency could escape its definers.