Possession in desire is a double reciprocal incarnation of both bodies

Evidence

In the caress it is not my body as a synthetic form in action which caresses the Other; it is my body as flesh which causes the Other’s flesh to be born. The caress is designed to cause the Other’s body to be born, through pleasure, for the Other—and for myself—as a touched passivity in such a way that my body is made flesh in order to touch the Other’s body with its own passivity; that is, by caressing itself with the Other’s body rather than by caressing her. … I make her enjoy my flesh through her flesh in order to compel her to feel herself flesh. And so possession truly appears as a double reciprocal incarnation. Thus in desire there is an attempt at the incarnation of consciousness (this is what we called earlier the clogging of consciousness, a troubled consciousness, etc.) in order to realize the incarnation of the Other. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 978

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Sartre’s account of erotic possession as mutual incarnation—each body made flesh through the other’s passivity—is a dense, paradigm-shifting phenomenological mechanism, not a summary point.
• XREF: This is the systematic backdrop to Beauvoir’s treatment of eroticism and embodiment in The Second Sex. — connects to: Desire strips the Other’s body of movement and garb to reveal pure flesh; Desire radically alters both the body’s lived being and the correlated world — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 980; Desire has a double determination toward being and toward appropriating concrete objects — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1363 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Desire has a double determination toward being and toward appropriating concrete objects #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1363
• Possession is an internal bond of being, not an external relation #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1366
• Possession is a magical relation projecting the ideal of the in-itself-for-itself #expands (0.80)