Seeing a body part detached from its whole produces an uncanny horror response

Evidence

We must note in addition that this appearance of the body does not give us the body as it acts and perceives but only as it is acted on and perceived. In short, as we remarked at the beginning of this chapter, it would be possible to conceive of a system of visual organs such that it would allow one eye to see the other. But the seen eye would be seen as a thing, not as a being of reference. Similarly the hand which I grasp with my other hand is not apprehended as a hand which is grasping but as an apprehensible object. Thus the nature of our body for us entirely escapes us to the extent that we can take upon it the Other’s point of view. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 923 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Photographs distort body parts because they lack the perceiver’s synthetic totality — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 903; The body seen from another’s viewpoint is a thing, not lived — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 923; Perceiving one’s own body as an object converts its lived possibilities into dead-possibilities (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Perceiving one’s own body as an object converts its lived possibilities into dead-possibilities #expands (0.78)
• The body seen from another’s viewpoint is a thing, not lived #responds-to (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 923