Nausea reveals facticity through the body’s inescapable belonging to being

Evidence

It goes without saying that we have chosen physical pain for the sake of an example and that there are thousands of other ways, themselves contingent, to exist our contingency. In particular we must note that when no pain, no specific satisfaction or dissatisfaction is “existed” by consciousness, the for-itself does not thereby cease to project itself beyond a contingency which is pure and so to speak unqualified. Consciousness does not cease “to have” a body. Coenesthetic affectivity is then a pure, nonpositional apprehension of a contingency without color, a pure apprehension of the self as a factual existence. This perpetual apprehension on the part of my for-itself of an insipid taste which I cannot place, which accompanies me even in my efforts to get away from it, and which is my taste—this is what we have described elsewhere under the name of Nausea. A dull and inescapable nausea perpetually reveals my body to my consciousness. Sometimes we look for the pleasant or for physical pain to free ourselves from this nausea; but as soon as the pain and the pleasure are existed by consciousness, they in turn manifest its facticity and its contingency; and it is on the ground of this nausea that they are revealed. We must not take the term nausea as a metaphor derived from our physiological disgust. On the contrary, we must realize that it is on the foundation of this nausea that all concrete and empirical nauseas (nausea caused by spoiled meat, fresh blood, excrement, etc.) are produced and make us vomit. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 886 (#expands, via linked claim)

It is nonetheless true that the psychic movement refers to two limits—the future terminus of its result, and the past terminus—the motionless organ which it alters and surpasses. I perceive the movement-of-the-arm as a perpetual, inapprehensible reference toward a past-being. This past-being (the arm, the leg, the whole body at rest) I do not see at all; I can never catch sight of it except through the movement which surpasses it and to which I am a presence—just as one gets a glimpse of a pebble at the bottom of the stream through the movement of the water. Yet this immobility of being which is always surpassed and never realized, to which I perpetually refer in order to say what is in motion—this is pure facticity, pure flesh, the pure in-itself as the past of a transcended transcendence which is perpetually being made past. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 906 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nausea is the nonpositional apprehension of one’s own contingent facticity, not a metaphor — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 886; Fundamental nausea reveals the facticity of existence beneath all empirical disgusts; The body’s immobility as surpassed facticity is the pure in-itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 906 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Nausea is the nonpositional apprehension of one’s own contingent facticity, not a metaphor #expands (0.95) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 886
• Fundamental nausea reveals the facticity of existence beneath all empirical disgusts #corroborates (0.90)
• The body’s immobility as surpassed facticity is the pure in-itself #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 906
• The body as facticity is grounded in the nihilation of the in-itself at birth. #expands (0.75)