My body is a point of view that others’ gazes always escape me

Evidence

To the extent that the Other’s omnipresence is the fundamental fact, the objectivity of my being-there is a constant dimension of my facticity; I exist my contingency in so far as I surpass it toward my possibles and in so far as it surreptitiously flees me toward an irremediable. My body is there not only as the point of view which I am but again as a point of view on which are actually brought to bear points of view which I could never take; my body escapes me on all sides. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 914

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘body escapes me on all sides’ anticipates Beauvoir’s account of women’s bodies as experienced through the male gaze. — connects to: The Other’s gaze imposes unchosen determinations on my being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1229; The Other’s look reveals my body as an object-for-others — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 913; Being seen alienates my flight into an object I cannot escape (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The Other’s look reveals my body as an object-for-others #expands (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 913
• The Other’s gaze imposes unchosen determinations on my being #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1229
• Being seen alienates my flight into an object I cannot escape #corroborates (0.85)
• The look splits me into a for-itself and an unknowable being-for-others #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 742
• The Other’s objective body cannot itself produce my objectification under his gaze #complicates (0.80)