Positive Plasticity
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.82
5. > On Neural Plasticit y, Trauma , and the Loss of Affects > The Two Meanings of Plasticity
Theoretical move: The passage argues that neural plasticity has two opposed forms — a positive plasticity of experience-driven connection-formation that constitutes the autobiographical self, and a destructive plasticity of brain-damage that "sculpts" a new identity by annihilating the previous one — and that the latter is irreducible to any psychic assimilation or "becoming-subject," functioning instead as a biological deconstruction of subjectivity.
One is positive: It characterizes the formation process of neural connections and the fact that these connections may be transformed during our lifetimes under the influence of experience.