Hetaeras serve as muses precisely because they combine flesh and consciousness

Evidence

In the caress it is not my body as a synthetic form in action which caresses the Other; it is my body as flesh which causes the Other’s flesh to be born. The caress is designed to cause the Other’s body to be born, through pleasure, for the Other—and for myself—as a touched passivity in such a way that my body is made flesh in order to touch the Other’s body with its own passivity; that is, by caressing itself with the Other’s body rather than by caressing her. … I make her enjoy my flesh through her flesh in order to compel her to feel herself flesh. And so possession truly appears as a double reciprocal incarnation. Thus in desire there is an attempt at the incarnation of consciousness (this is what we called earlier the clogging of consciousness, a troubled consciousness, etc.) in order to realize the incarnation of the Other. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 978 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Consciousness is a duality that is unity, irreducible to the in-itself; Possession in desire is a double reciprocal incarnation of both bodies — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 978

Broader Connections

• Consciousness is a duality that is unity, irreducible to the in-itself #expands (0.78)
• Possession in desire is a double reciprocal incarnation of both bodies #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 978