Being-seen produces essential modifications in the for-itself’s structure
Evidence
Thus this relation which I call “being-seen-by-another,” far from being merely one of the relations signified by the word man, represents an irreducible fact which can not be deduced either from the essence of the Other-as-object, or from my being-as-subject. On the contrary, if the concept of the Other-as-object is to have any meaning, this can be only as the result of the conversion and the degradation of that original relation. In a word, my apprehension of the Other in the world as probably being a man refers to my permanent possibility of being-seen-by-him; that is, to the permanent possibility that a subject who sees me may be substituted for the object seen by me. “Being-seen-by-the-Other” is the truth of “seeing-the-Other.” Thus the notion of the Other can not under any circumstances aim at a solitary, extra-mundane consciousness which I can not even think. The man is defined by his relation to the world and by his relation to myself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 722 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Being-seen-by-the-Other is the foundational relation from which the Other-as-object is derived — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 722; Encountering the Other reveals the for-itself having an outside and being embedded in being; Body-for-others is studied through the identity of my-being-for-the-Other structures
Broader Connections
- Being-seen-by-the-Other is the foundational relation from which the Other-as-object is derived
#corroborates(0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 722 - Encountering the Other reveals the for-itself having an outside and being embedded in being
#expands(0.80) - Body-for-others is studied through the identity of my-being-for-the-Other structures
#corroborates(0.78)