Seduction works by presenting one’s object-ness as a fascinating fullness of being
Evidence
To seduce is to risk assuming my object-state completely for the Other; it is to put myself beneath his look and to make him look at me; it is to risk the danger of being-seen in order to effect a new departure and to appropriate the Other in and by means of my object-ness. … By seduction I aim at constituting myself as a fullness of being and at making myself recognized as such. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 951
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines seduction technically within Sartre’s ontology as the deliberate assumption of object-state to lure the Other’s look.
- XREF: Connects to earlier definition of fascination as non-thetic consciousness of being nothing in the presence of being (referenced in the passage itself). — connects to: Desiring perception treats objects as flesh that reveals one’s own body; Objectness is the state of being an object, distinct from objectivity; Feminine romantic fantasy scripts the girl as pursued object of another’s desire — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 709