The unh habituated soul is mad because it cannot see its own death coming

Evidence

Since habit is the precondition for the existence of ‘self-feeling’, without habit there would be literally nobody to live or to die. Human beings are those who, in order to be, must observe that speculative clock which is habit, a clock which makes it possible to ‘see (what is) coming’, meaning that the end can be brought forward and, at the same time, postponed. The soul analysed in the early sections of the Anthropology, a soul not yet habituated, cannot see itself dying, and does not know it is finite: it is, therefore, mad. But the real soul, on the other hand, knows how to tell time (sait lire l’heure). — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 611

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the speculative clock of habit: it is what lets the end be both brought forward and postponed, fusing teleology and deferral.
• SEED: Could angle an essay on competence/knowledge as the condition for recognizing finitude versus the madness of unhabituated openness.