Self-certainty requires recognition from the other

Evidence

The only means of breaking this vicious circle that throws me back on myself is to restore to the other, through mediation and recognition, his human reality, which is different from natural reality. The other has to perform the same operation. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 782 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The other, however, can recognize me without struggle: “The individual, who has not staked his Me, may, no doubt, be recognized as a person, but he has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 788 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Self-consciousness depends on being recognized by another consciousness; Mutual recognition is the sole escape from solipsistic self-enclosure — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 782; Recognition given without struggle never constitutes genuine self-consciousness — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 788 (+24 more)

Related

• Self-consciousness depends on being recognized by another consciousness (similarity 0.93)
• The neurotic conflict between self-denial and self-assertion is resolved only through universal human connection (similarity 0.89)
• Mutual recognition establishes a symmetrical dependence between self and Other (similarity 0.88)
• Recognition given without struggle never constitutes genuine self-consciousness (similarity 0.88)
• Mere verbal identification of individual and state changes no one’s consciousness. (similarity 0.87)
• Mutual recognition is the sole escape from solipsistic self-enclosure (similarity 0.87)
• Human worth depends on recognition by another person (similarity 0.86)
• Self-consciousness only becomes truth through the Other’s recognition (similarity 0.84)
• Mutual eye contact is inherently reciprocal and self-revealing (similarity 0.84)
• Self-awareness lifts the I above itself while it remains itself (similarity 0.79)
• No consciousness can be directly known by another consciousness (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Self-consciousness depends on being recognized by another consciousness #corroborates (0.95)
• Mutual recognition is the sole escape from solipsistic self-enclosure #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 782
• Recognition given without struggle never constitutes genuine self-consciousness #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 788
• Consciousness must lose itself in the absolute to attain self-consciousness #complicates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 508
• A change of environment cannot cure a neurosis the subject himself deploys as self-confirmation #complicates (0.40)