Plasticity of Forms
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Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference · Patricia Gherovici · p.121
**PLASTIC SEX, THE BEAUTY OF IT** > **The plasticity of gender** > She left a note:
Theoretical move: The passage mobilizes the concept of "plasticity" — drawn from Malabou's reading of Hegel and from the dual etymology of "plastic" (Greek: malleability of form; German: classical beauty) — to argue that beauty functions as a denial of death and a limit to plasticity's promise of endless permutation, while the figure of the transgender body paradoxically comes to embody the contemporary ideal of femininity, exposing the constructed, non-natural character of the phallus-rule that Giddens thought plastic sexuality had escaped.
Malabou understands 'philosophical plasticity' as a philosophical attitude, the behavior of the philosopher; to her, 'philosophical plasticity' applies to philosophy, to the rhythm with which the speculative content is unfolded and presented.