Each concrete desire expresses the whole of human reality.

Evidence

THE information which ontology can furnish concerning behavior patterns and desire must serve as the basic principles of existential psycho-analysis. This does not mean that there is an over-all pattern of abstract desires common to all men; it means that concrete desires have structures which emerge during the study of ontology because each desire—the desire of eating or of sleeping as well as the desire of creating a work of artexpresses all human reality. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1347

Categorization

• XREF: Precisely the premise Beauvoir inherits: that woman’s concrete situation (desires, roles) expresses the totality of her human reality. — connects to: Human desire fundamentally aims at being one’s own foundation, a state called God. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1330; Desire has a double determination toward being and toward appropriating concrete objects — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1363; Human reality is the pure effort to become God, desire being its expression — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1348 (+7 more)
• DEFINE: Clarifies Sartre’s thesis that desires are not abstract universals but totalizing structures.

Broader Connections

• Desire has a double determination toward being and toward appropriating concrete objects #expands (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1363
• Human reality is the pure effort to become God, desire being its expression #expands (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1348
• Every human act expresses the whole person, not a fragment #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1334
• Desire proves human reality is constituted as a lack #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 354
• Human reality becomes a totality only by surpassing each concrete negation #qualifies (0.75)
• Heidegger defines human reality through inseparable moments of world, being-in, and being #corroborates (0.75)
• Everyone has a deep desire for judgment in their lives. #complicates (0.72) — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 59
• Witnessing our reality is a fundamental human need. #complicates (0.72) — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 642
• The body is constituted as the totality of its meaningful relations to the world #expands (0.72)