Sartre explains the sexual act as an attempt to capture the Other’s consciousness

Evidence

Even the sexual act is an attempt at acquiring the consciousness of the Other. Because, in the ontological set-up, the Other’s consciousness is always inaccessible and because all I encounter is a body, my desire for the Other is a desire to captivate the Other’s consciousness. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 102

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does Beauvoir’s account of desire differ — does she make the body an end rather than a means to consciousness capture?
• XREF: connects to: Sartre’s theory of love makes the body a strategic instrument — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 101; Sartre’s denial of ontological being-for-others grounds his hostile intersubjectivity — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 656; Sartre’s initial reciprocity is really the traumatic recognition of another’s freedom — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 484

Broader Connections

• Sartre’s theory of love makes the body a strategic instrument #expands (0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 101
• Sartre’s denial of ontological being-for-others grounds his hostile intersubjectivity #expands (0.72) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 656