Desire radically alters both the body’s lived being and the correlated world

Evidence

Similarly sexual desire is a radical modification of the For-itself; since the For-itself makes itself be on another plane of being, it determines itself to exist its body differently, to make itself be clogged by its facticity. Correlatively the world must come into being for the For-itself in a new way. There is a world of desire. If my body is no longer felt as the instrument which can not be utilized by any instrument—i.e., as the synthetic organization of my acts in the world—if it is lived as flesh, then it is as a reference to my flesh that I apprehend the objects in the world. … In my desiring perception I discover something like a flesh of objects. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 980

Categorization

• XREF: Directly maps desire onto the emotion structure — both as radical alterations of the world, in parallel with Sartre’s earlier emotion analysis in Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions; also foundational backdrop for Beauvoir’s account of embodiment in the Second Sex. — connects to: Desire strips the Other’s body of movement and garb to reveal pure flesh; Possession in desire is a double reciprocal incarnation of both bodies — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 978; Desire strips the world of meaning to reduce self and Other to pure facticity. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 985 (+3 more)
• DEFINE: Defines the desiring mode as a distinct plane of being where the body is ‘lived as flesh’ rather than as instrument — a key contrast between body-as-instrument and body-as-flesh.

Broader Connections

• Possession in desire is a double reciprocal incarnation of both bodies #expands (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 978