Body-for-others is studied through the identity of my-being-for-the-Other structures

Evidence

With the appearance of the Other’s look I experience the revelation of my being-as-object; that is, of my transcendence as transcended. A me-as-object is revealed to me as an unknowable being, as the flight into an Other which I am with full responsibility. But while I can not know nor even conceive of this “Me” in its reality, at least I am not without apprehending certain of its formal structures. In particular I feel myself touched by the Other in my factual existence; it is my being-there-for-others for which I am responsible. This being-there is precisely the body. Thus the encounter with the Other does not only touch me in my transcendence: in and through the transcendence which the Other surpasses, the facticity which my transcendence nihilates and transcends exists for the Other; and to the extent that I am conscious of existing for the Other I apprehend my own facticity, not only in its non-thetic nihilation, not only in the existent, but in its flight towards a being-in-the-midst-of-the-world. The shock of the encounter with the Other is for me a revelation in emptiness of the existence of my body outside as an in-itself for the Other. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 913 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The Illness which I suffer I can aim at in its In-itself; that is, precisely in its being-for-others. At this moment I know it; that is, I aim at it in its dimension of being which escapes me, at the face which it turns toward Others, and my aim is impregnated with the wisdom which language has brought to me;—i.e., I utilize instrumental concepts which come to me from the Other, and which I should in no case have been able to form by myself or think of directing upon my body. It is by means of the Other’s concepts that I know my body. But it follows that even in reflection I assume the Other’s point of view on my body; I try to apprehend it as if I were the Other in relation to it. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 919 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The body is primarily known as the Other’s body, not one’s own; Being-for-others is the third ekstasis, after the nihilation and reflection — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 801; Being-seen produces essential modifications in the for-itself’s structure (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• The Other’s look reveals my body as an object-for-others #corroborates (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 913
• Even first-person knowledge of my own body is mediated by the Other’s concepts #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 919
• The other’s body is originally given as being-in-situation #expands (0.78)