The self may be expected to bend to biological and cultural pressure

Evidence

Must we postulate the suppleness of a primordial self that can (or even ought to) bend to the working of the simultaneously biological and cultural barrage to which it is subjected? — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 218

Categorization

• QUESTION: The ‘or even ought to’ is the loaded bit — where flexibility silently acquires a normative ‘should.’ Worth tracking how the ought leaks into the is.