Reflexive attention takes another person’s attention as its own object.

Evidence

We are here well and truly in the sphere of reflexive attention: every time that I open a book, listen to a lecture, or start a video, my attention takes someone else’s attention as its object, which I enter into so as to re-imagine the world from a different point of view, while retaining the liberty to wander freely inside this objectivized attention. By putting our attention onto another attention, meta-attentional engagement opens a space whose reflexive structure helps us to reflect on what determines our attention. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 466

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the chapter’s core concept: ‘reflexive attention’ as attention turned onto another’s attention.
• XREF: connects to: Mutual eye contact is inherently reciprocal and self-revealing; Perceiving another person’s body differs fundamentally from perceiving objects; Attention is fundamentally alienated because it is always directed at something else. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 509 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Perceiving another person’s body differs fundamentally from perceiving objects #expands (0.80)
• Mutual eye contact is inherently reciprocal and self-revealing #corroborates (0.78)