All interpersonal relations rest on an unstable subject-object struggle.

Evidence

Thus the revelation of the Other is the Look. I experience him as subject when he looks at me and as object when I look at him. And upon this unstable shifting of subject and object is erected the whole edifice of Sartrian love, hate, sadism, masochism, and even indifference, all of which together constitute that conflict which is at the basis of all inter-human relationships. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 92

Categorization

• XREF: Directly scaffolds Beauvoir: the conflictual model of inter-human relations is what her ethics of ambiguity must grapple with. — connects to: Every dyadic relation with an Other rests on a ground of all other consciousnesses — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1020; Two primitive attitudes structure all my relations with the Other.; Every attitude toward the Other fails and collapses into its opposite — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1006 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The nothingness separating self and Other precedes and founds all relation #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 675
• Every attitude toward the Other fails and collapses into its opposite #epitomizes (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1006
• Every dyadic relation with an Other rests on a ground of all other consciousnesses #expands (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1020
• Two primitive attitudes structure all my relations with the Other. #qualifies (0.75)
• All communication rests on a non-negatable taken-for-granted baseline #corroborates (0.72)