Plasticity
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CORE DEFINITION
It includes both the capacity to receive form (as in sculpture) and the capacity to give form (as in explosives). It is not elasticity (recovery), but irreversible change. The brain and life are plastic, meaning they form new structures after injury or change, and do not return to the past.
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The generativity of trauma. After trauma, do not seek to 'recover' (return to the past), but seek to be 'plastic' (become a new form). Each blow is an opportunity to reshape, though you cannot go back, you can become a new, unique shape.
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Aristotle distinguished 'plasticity'—receiving form (passive) and giving form (active), and once formed, it cannot return to its original state (not elastic). Living systems (brain, tissue) reorganize into new structures after injury, reflecting the 'generativity of trauma'.
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