Positing oneself as object before an absolute non-objective subject produces fear and alienation.

Evidence

If, however, I conceive of the “they” as a subject before whom I am ashamed, then it can not become an object without being scattered into a plurality of Others; and if I posit it as the absolute unity of the subject which can in no way become an object, I thereby posit the eternity of my being-as-object and so perpetuate my shame. This is shame before God; that is, the recognition of my being-an-object before a subject which can never become an object. By the same stroke I realize my object-state in the absolute and hypostasize it. The position of God is accompanied by a reification of my object-ness. Or better yet, I posit my being-an-object-for-God as more real than my For-itself; I exist alienated and I cause myself to learn from outside what I must be. This is the origin of fear before God. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 786

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies how shame-before-God functions as a hypostasized, reifying variant of the shame structure described across prior chapters.
• XREF: Directly feeds Beauvoir’s reading of religion as an alienating posture; connects to her later account of woman positing herself as the Other before a divine subject. — connects to: Fear apprehends the self as a passive destructible object among external causes; Being perceived as an object by another creates communal shame and alienation; Anxiety about freedom drives subjects to alienate themselves in things — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 128 (+4 more)
• ADDENDUM: The reification of one’s object-ness before an absolute subject parallels the alienation-by-sacrifice logic in the ‘On Sacrifice’ article: subjection to a fixed cosmic order.

Broader Connections

• Recognition in the racist gaze makes subjects alien to themselves #exemplifies (0.85)
• Being perceived as an object by another creates communal shame and alienation #expands (0.82)
• Postmodern pathology displaces anxiety and alienation with the subject’s fragmentation #responds-to (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 68
• Anxiety about freedom drives subjects to alienate themselves in things #complicates (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 128