Sensation involves a magical inherence of lived and living rather than spatial belonging

Evidence

Thus I have determined a sort of internal space in which certain figures called sensations are formed on the occasion of external stimulations. Since this space is pure passivity. I declare that it suffers its sensations. But I do not thereby mean only that it is the internal environment which serves as matrix for them. I am inspired at present with a biological vision of the world which I borrow for my objective conception of the sensory organ considered, and I claim that this internal space lives its sensation. Thus life is a magical connection which I establish between a passive environment and a passive mode of this environment. The mind does not produce its own sensations and hence they remain exterior to it; but on the other hand, it appropriates them to itself by living them. The unity of the “lived” and the “living” is no longer indeed a spatial juxtaposition nor a relation of content to container; it is a magical inherence. The mind is its own sensations while remaining distinct from them. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 844

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘magical inherence’ as the relation between the mind and its sensations — life as a magical connection.
• DEEPTHINKING: The concept of ‘magic’ as a technical ontological category (in contrast to rational causality) is one of Sartre’s most distinctive and least-noticed tools.
• XREF: The mind-as-passive-internal-space is precisely what Sartre elsewhere attacks as the ‘illusion of immanence’; matches his critique of the objectivist psychologist. — connects to: Fear is magical conduct, not physiological disorder, that alters the instrumental world; Sensation is constituted as an inert exteriority whose reason for being lies outside itself; Being reflected upon gives consciousness a sense of having an outside (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Sensation is constituted as an inert exteriority whose reason for being lies outside itself #contradicts (0.85)
• Sensation is the first stage through which substance awakens into subjectivity #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 349
• Imagination precedes and produces reality rather than reflecting it #contradicts (0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 152
• Sensation anchors awareness in immediate present presence #corroborates (0.75) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 242
• Being reflected upon gives consciousness a sense of having an outside #contradicts (0.70)