Prior psychic forms motivate later ones as whole objects acting at a distance
Evidence
In motivation, on the contrary, the two objects remain each at its own place. But since a psychic object is an organized form and a multiplicity of interpenetration, it can act only simultaneously as one whole on another whole object. The result is a total action at a distance by means of a magic influence of one on the other. For example, my humiliation of yesterday is the total motive for my mood this morning, etc. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 544
Categorization
- XREF: The whole-on-whole ‘magic’ motivation of tomorrow by yesterday directly underpins how bad faith and self-deception persist across time. — connects to: Psychic states act on each other magically and resist intellectualistic causal explanation
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Psychic states act on each other magically and resist intellectualistic causal explanation