Fatigue becomes bearable or intolerable only through reflective consciousness conferring value
Evidence
It is not at all a contemplative apprehension of my fatigue; rather, as we saw with respect to pain, I suffer my fatigue. That is, a reflective consciousness is directed upon my fatigue in order to live it and to confer on it a value and a practical relation to myself. It is only on this plane that the fatigue will appear to me as bearable or intolerable. It will never be anything in itself, but it is the reflective For-itself which rising up suffers the fatigue as intolerable. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1103
Categorization
- XREF: Directly parallels Sartre’s earlier analysis of physical pain; same reflective-live-it structure. Establishes the reflective For-itself’s role conferring meaning on facticity. — connects to: Reflective consciousness discloses values as the meaning of what is lacked; The same fatigue is lived as loving appropriation within a vaster project — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1104; Exhaustion kills capacity while inspired tiredness enables non-doing — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 86 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Exhaustion kills capacity while inspired tiredness enables non-doing
#expands(0.80) — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 86 - Reflective consciousness alone can dissociate itself from what it posits
#expands(0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 330 - The body is apprehended non-thetically as fatigue while consciousness attends to the world
#corroborates(0.78) - Deep tiredness enables a special kind of perception and calm
#qualifies(0.75) — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 82 - Reflection deepens the reflective-reflected split beyond self-consciousness
#expands(0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 802