Desire singles out undifferentiated, nearly motionless flesh as the image of pure facticity

Evidence

It is not by chance that desire while aiming at the body as a whole attains it especially through masses of flesh which are very little differentiated, grossly nerveless, hardly capable of spontaneous movement, through breasts, buttocks, thighs, stomach: these form a sort of image of pure facticity. This is why also the true caress is the contact of two bodies in their mostly fleshy parts, the contact of stomachs and breasts; the caressing hand is too delicate, too much like a perfected instrument. But the full pressing together of the flesh of two people against one another is the true goal of desire. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 986

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concretizes what ‘pure facticity’ and ‘flesh’ mean in Sartre’s ontology by grounding them in specific undifferentiated body masses.
• XREF: connects to: Desire strips the Other’s body of movement and garb to reveal pure flesh; Desire strips the world of meaning to reduce self and Other to pure facticity. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 985; Desire is consciousness troubled by its own inapprehensible facticity (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Desire strips the Other’s body of movement and garb to reveal pure flesh; Desire strips the world of meaning to reduce self and Other to pure facticity. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 985; Desire is consciousness troubled by its own inapprehensible facticity (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Desire is consciousness troubled by its own inapprehensible facticity #expands (0.90)
• Desiring perception treats objects as flesh that reveals one’s own body #expands (0.85)
• Desire’s failure to reach incarnation can flip consciousness into masochistic submission #corroborates (0.75)