Making the Other an object transcends and neutralizes his transcendence.

Evidence

This nihilating flight is entirely reapprehended by the in-itself and fixed in in-itself as soon as the Other appears. The for-itself when alone transcends the world; it is the nothing by which there are things. The Other by rising up confers on the for-itself a being-in-itself-in-the-midst-of-the-world as a thing among things. This petrifaction in in-itself by the Other’s look is the pro-found meaning of the myth of Medusa. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1045 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Thus this relation which I call “being-seen-by-another,” far from being merely one of the relations signified by the word man, represents an irreducible fact which can not be deduced either from the essence of the Other-as-object, or from my being-as-subject. On the contrary, if the concept of the Other-as-object is to have any meaning, this can be only as the result of the conversion and the degradation of that original relation. In a word, my apprehension of the Other in the world as probably being a man refers to my permanent possibility of being-seen-by-him; that is, to the permanent possibility that a subject who sees me may be substituted for the object seen by me. “Being-seen-by-the-Other” is the truth of “seeing-the-Other.” Thus the notion of the Other can not under any circumstances aim at a solitary, extra-mundane consciousness which I can not even think. The man is defined by his relation to the world and by his relation to myself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 722 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The other as object is grasped through the tool-world he organizes around himself; The Other-as-object resists reduction to his underlying subjectivity; Being-seen-by-the-Other is the foundational relation from which the Other-as-object is derived — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 722 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The Other’s look turns the free for-itself into a fixed thing #exemplifies (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1045
• The Other-as-object resists reduction to his underlying subjectivity #contradicts (0.82)
• Being-seen-by-the-Other is the foundational relation from which the Other-as-object is derived #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 722
• The for-itself is simultaneously nihilation and, via the Other, a thing #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1046