Self-consciousness depends on being recognized by another consciousness

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)

At any rate, here is one of the cases where the individual, within his own consciousness, repeats the relationships which exist between him, as a total personality, and the group. It is an old observation that the conceptions of the single individual, with all their relations of association and dissociation, differentiation, and unification, behave in the same way in which individuals behave in regard to one another. It is merely a peculiar case of this correspondence that those intrapsychological relations are repeated, not only between individuals in general, but also between the individual and his group. All that society asks of its members—adaptation and loyalty, altruism and work, self-discipline and truthfulness—the individual also asks of himself. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 354 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Self-certainty requires recognition from the other; The neurotic conflict between self-denial and self-assertion is resolved only through universal human connection; Representation itself determines who is acknowledged as dying and how (+24 more)

Related

• Self-certainty requires recognition from the other (similarity 0.93)
• Human worth depends on recognition by another person (similarity 0.92)
• Mutual recognition is the sole escape from solipsistic self-enclosure (similarity 0.89)
• The neurotic conflict between self-denial and self-assertion is resolved only through universal human connection (similarity 0.87)
• Recognition given without struggle never constitutes genuine self-consciousness (similarity 0.87)
• Mutual recognition establishes a symmetrical dependence between self and Other (similarity 0.87)
• Self-consciousness only becomes truth through the Other’s recognition (similarity 0.85)
• Mutual eye contact is inherently reciprocal and self-revealing (similarity 0.84)
• Mere verbal identification of individual and state changes no one’s consciousness. (similarity 0.84)
• Self-awareness lifts the I above itself while it remains itself (similarity 0.83)
• No consciousness can be directly known by another consciousness (similarity 0.80)
• Self-knowledge of one’s limits requires a vantage point outside them (similarity 0.79)
• Consciousness must lose itself in the absolute to attain self-consciousness (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Mutual recognition is the sole escape from solipsistic self-enclosure #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 782
• The friend-enemy distinction dissolves only through mutual recognition within shared space #corroborates (0.75)
• The individual’s inner mental relations mirror social relations among persons #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 354
• 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 (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 508
• Black consciousness precedes the ego and resists external framing as a lack #complicates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 512