Primary perception is organized around attraction and repulsion affecting bodily movement
Evidence
Sartre and Merleau-Ponty follow Husserl also in thematizing two major types of aff ection: attraction and repulsion. Both argue that in primary perception we encounter attractive things to which we respond by approaching, reaching, and grasping; and on the other hand, we experience repulsive things that make us dissociate and turn, draw, and move farther away. Th is duality of attractive and repulsive objects corresponds to the duality of our own movements: we move toward things and away from them; we stay near to things and distance ourselves from them; we grasp and reject, possess and refute. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 362
Categorization
- XREF: The attraction/repulsion duality prefigures Beauvoir’s ethics of appeal vs. oppression in Pyrrhus and Cinéas. — connects to: Perception is an active process of filtering and organizing, not passive reception; Husserl held that perceived objects actively move, attract, and repel subjects — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 353; Emotions take distinct bodily forms localized in specific organs