Fear apprehends the self as a passive destructible object among external causes

Evidence

If, however, I conceive of the “they” as a subject before whom I am ashamed, then it can not become an object without being scattered into a plurality of Others; and if I posit it as the absolute unity of the subject which can in no way become an object, I thereby posit the eternity of my being-as-object and so perpetuate my shame. This is shame before God; that is, the recognition of my being-an-object before a subject which can never become an object. By the same stroke I realize my object-state in the absolute and hypostasize it. The position of God is accompanied by a reification of my object-ness. Or better yet, I posit my being-an-object-for-God as more real than my For-itself; I exist alienated and I cause myself to learn from outside what I must be. This is the origin of fear before God. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 786 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fear of death is the ego relinquishing its narcissistic cathexis — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 2706; Anguish is fear of oneself while fear targets beings in the world — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 236; Positing oneself as object before an absolute non-objective subject produces fear and alienation. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 786 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Positing oneself as object before an absolute non-objective subject produces fear and alienation. #expands (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 786
• Reflection offers an undetermined future against fear’s strict determinism #contradicts (0.72)