Desire is a pre-deliberate project realized only through one’s own incarnation.

Evidence

Desire is a lived project which does not suppose any preliminary deliberation but which includes within itself its meaning and its interpretation. As soon as I throw myself toward the Other’s facticity, as soon as I wish to push aside his acts and his functions so as to touch him in his flesh, I incarnate myself, for I can neither wish nor even conceive of the incarnation of the Other except in and by means of my own incarnation. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 985

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies ‘incarnation’ as the correlate of the Other’s facticity — desire touches flesh only through the desirer’s own body.
• XREF: Pre-deliberate lived projects echo the structure of bad faith from earlier chapters — projects that are lived rather than thematically posited. — connects to: Desire aims at eternalizing itself rather than annihilating itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 385; The for-itself desires to be its own foundation without annihilating its consciousness. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 361; Desire is a distinctive mode of self-choice, not a mere directed longing (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Desire aims at eternalizing itself rather than annihilating itself #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 385
• The for-itself desires to be its own foundation without annihilating its consciousness. #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 361
• Desire is a distinctive mode of self-choice, not a mere directed longing #expands (0.78)
• Desire is a chosen mode of consciousness, not a passive impingement #expands (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 979
• Desire is defined by its transcendent object, not by pursuit of pleasure #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 972
• The desire to do ultimately reduces to a desire to be #expands (0.75)