Self-objectification is the founding condition that makes human alienation possible

Evidence

The second consequence of this scheme of the two negations is that through them man not only works on the outside world, but on himself as well. He makes himself an object in order to work on objects, he makes himself inertia in order to overcome inertia, just as one converts one’s hands and arms into tools in order to use tools. Thus initially man’s ultimate possibility of being alienated or dehumanized is given in this first basic structure of his relationship to matter. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 476

Categorization

• XREF: The hand-as-tool figure directly echoes Aristotle’s and Hegel’s analysis of tools, and connects to Marx’s labor philosophy and Lukács on reification. — connects to: The for-itself becomes itself only by assuming its alienated being-for-others — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 777; Positing oneself as object before an absolute non-objective subject produces fear and alienation. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 786; Being perceived as an object by another creates communal shame and alienation (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The for-itself becomes itself only by assuming its alienated being-for-others #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 777
• Positing oneself as object before an absolute non-objective subject produces fear and alienation. #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 786
• Being perceived as an object by another creates communal shame and alienation #expands (0.75)
• The for-itself radically excludes all objectivity by its own mode of being #contradicts (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 694