Perception of bodies differs in original structure, not merely enrichment, from inanimate perception

Evidence

But precisely for this reason a new structure of perception corresponds to each type of reality. The body is the psychic object par excellence—the only psychic object. But if we consider that the body is a transcended transcendence, then the perception of it can not by nature be of the same type as that of inanimate objects. We must not understand by this that the perception is progressively enriched but that originally it is of another structure. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 905

Categorization

• DEFINE: Perception structures vary by reality type; body perception is originally of another structure than object perception.
• XREF: connects to: The image is constituted by a nihilating structure, not by revived perception — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 230; Photographs distort body parts because they lack the perceiver’s synthetic totality — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 903; Perception grasps the Other’s gesture as a whole-body structure, not as parts plus judgment — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 903 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The image is constituted by a nihilating structure, not by revived perception — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 230; Photographs distort body parts because they lack the perceiver’s synthetic totality — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 903; Perception grasps the Other’s gesture as a whole-body structure, not as parts plus judgment — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 903 (+4 more)