Only free choice can resolve an indeterminate chain of mutual objectification

Evidence

But the other negation is the reason for the appearance of the new one; for if there is an Other who puts me out of play by positing my transcendence as purely contemplated, this is because I wrench myself away from the Other by assuming my limit. The consciousness (of) this wrenching away of the consciousness of (being) the same in relation to the Other is the consciousness (of) my free spontaneity. By this very wrenching away which puts the Other in possession of my limit, I am already putting the Other out of play. Therefore in so far as I am conscious (of) myself as of one of my free possibilities and in so far as I project myself toward myself in order to realize this selfness, to that extent I am responsible for the existence of the Other. It is I who by the very affirmation of my free spontaneity cause there to be an Other and not simply an infinite reference of consciousness to itself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 781 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Being-for-others (être-pour-autrui). The third ekstasis (q.v.) of the For-itself. There arises here a new dimension of being in which my Self exists outside as an object for others. The For-others involves a perpetual conflict as each For-itself seeks to recover its own Being by directly or indirectly making an object out of the other. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1462 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: So-called sensory relativity is really objective contradiction resolved by free choice.; The human race is constituted by free individual choices, not vice versa — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1222; The friend-enemy distinction dissolves only through mutual recognition within shared space (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• The for-itself’s free spontaneity makes the Other’s existence possible #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 781
• The Other-as-object reinforces the world’s objectivity while the Other-as-look dissolves it #expands (0.80)
• Being-for-others generates perpetual conflict as each self objectifies the other #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1462
• The human race is constituted by free individual choices, not vice versa #corroborates (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1222
• The friend-enemy distinction dissolves only through mutual recognition within shared space #qualifies (0.75)
• Mutual recognition establishes a symmetrical dependence between self and Other #qualifies (0.75)