Unconsciousness in habit is the necessary condition for consciousness

Evidence

Even as it blunts the vivacity of external impressions, habit plunges the soul into a certain kind of slumber. But that increase of passivity is in fact the condition for the progressive development of an internal activity. Unconsciousness (la non-conscience) is necessary for the emergence of consciousness: the soul, no longer immersed in the particularity of external determinations, is ‘open to be otherwise occupied and engaged – say with feeling and with mental consciousness in general’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 575

Categorization

• DEFINE: Specifies the dialectical relation of habit to consciousness: passivity enables internal activity.
• XREF: connects to: Habit’s reversible soul-body translation constitutes the Self and awakens consciousness. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 573; Unconsciousness is the precondition for consciousness to emerge.; Soul’s withdrawal into habitual unconsciousness enables consciousness to emerge — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 575 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Unconsciousness is the precondition for consciousness to emerge. #corroborates (0.98)
• Soul’s withdrawal into habitual unconsciousness enables consciousness to emerge #expands (0.86) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 575
• Maximum self-consciousness only reveals thought’s irrecoverable unconsciousness #corroborates (0.78)
• Consciousness must lose itself in the absolute to attain self-consciousness #corroborates (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 508
• Upright posture is a selected habit sustained by unconscious will #exemplifies (0.72)