Shame claims the Other’s freedom as one’s own, affirming a unity of being.

Evidence

It is at one’s body that the Other is looking. Again, there seems to be a divorce between consciousness and the body as Sartre explains that there is a distance between my consciousness and that of the Other, and that distance is occupied by our bodies: “Th e Other is fi rst the being for whom I am an object; that is, the being through whom I gain my objectness” (BN, 361). Th rough experiencing such original reactions of shame, fear, and pride, consciousness comes face to face with its own factical being: the body. One must be a body-in-the-world in order to feel shame. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 97 (#expands, via linked claim)

But the other negation is the reason for the appearance of the new one; for if there is an Other who puts me out of play by positing my transcendence as purely contemplated, this is because I wrench myself away from the Other by assuming my limit. The consciousness (of) this wrenching away of the consciousness of (being) the same in relation to the Other is the consciousness (of) my free spontaneity. By this very wrenching away which puts the Other in possession of my limit, I am already putting the Other out of play. Therefore in so far as I am conscious (of) myself as of one of my free possibilities and in so far as I project myself toward myself in order to realize this selfness, to that extent I am responsible for the existence of the Other. It is I who by the very affirmation of my free spontaneity cause there to be an Other and not simply an infinite reference of consciousness to itself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 781 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Shame is fundamentally experienced in the presence of another person — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 659; Shame is the recognition of being as the Other sees one — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 660; The Other is an invisible presence that supports shame without being an object (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• The Other is an invisible presence that supports shame without being an object #expands (0.85)
• Shame first reveals one’s factical body because the Other’s look falls on embodiment #expands (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 97
• The Other’s freedom is the sole separation between my self and the Other #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 749
• The for-itself’s free spontaneity makes the Other’s existence possible #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 781
• Being perceived as an object by another creates communal shame and alienation #qualifies (0.75)
• Freedom can be defined through domination rather than through respect for others. #contradicts (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 164
• Shame precedes reflection and arises from an opaque self-relation #expands (0.70)