Sartre’s own writings drift from lived body toward instrumental body
Evidence
However, presenting the body also as merely a tool, or hindrance, defl ates this claim. Th ere are good reasons why the reader leaves the treatise unconvinced by Sartre’s stringent notion of embodiment. Th e descriptions of the chapter “Concrete Relations with Others” that immediately follow the chapter “Th e Body” contribute to that. In “Concrete Relations with Others,” Sartre explores relations of love, language, masochism, indiff erence, desire, hate, and sadism. I want to examine Sartre’s descriptions of sexual relations between individuals now because they can tell us of a slight shift occurring in relation to Sartre’s view of embodiment. More specifi cally, they indicate a shift toward a purely instrumental view of the body. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 99
Categorization
- SEED: Essay angle: Sartre’s ‘Concrete Relations with Others’ chapter as the site where his anti-instrumentalist theory of the body is quietly betrayed by his own concrete analyses.
- XREF: connects to: Sartre’s Nausea centers on a root’s opaque being overwhelming consciousness — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 83; Husserl later pulled intentionality back inward into the mind, diverging from Sartre’s outward reading — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 161; Sartre rejects the instrumental body, insisting the lived body is action — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 97 (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Sartre’s concepts change meaning across Being and Nothingness due to his Cartesian method
#expands(0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 212 - Sartre’s analysis of freedom is fragmented and internally inconsistent across Being and Nothingness
#corroborates(0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 212 - Sartre exemplifies the Lacanian masculine subject repressing attachment to the maternal body
#complicates(0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 131