Fear is magical conduct, not physiological disorder, that alters the instrumental world

Evidence

Thus I have determined a sort of internal space in which certain figures called sensations are formed on the occasion of external stimulations. Since this space is pure passivity. I declare that it suffers its sensations. But I do not thereby mean only that it is the internal environment which serves as matrix for them. I am inspired at present with a biological vision of the world which I borrow for my objective conception of the sensory organ considered, and I claim that this internal space lives its sensation. Thus life is a magical connection which I establish between a passive environment and a passive mode of this environment. The mind does not produce its own sensations and hence they remain exterior to it; but on the other hand, it appropriates them to itself by living them. The unity of the “lived” and the “living” is no longer indeed a spatial juxtaposition nor a relation of content to container; it is a magical inherence. The mind is its own sensations while remaining distinct from them. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 844 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sensation involves a magical inherence of lived and living rather than spatial belonging — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 844; Practical consciousness is non-reflective and discloses the world as instrumentality; Freire held that fear naturally attends critical teaching and must not be abstracted away — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 434

Broader Connections

• Sensation involves a magical inherence of lived and living rather than spatial belonging #exemplifies (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 844
• Practical consciousness is non-reflective and discloses the world as instrumentality #exemplifies (0.78)