Shame first reveals one’s factical body because the Other’s look falls on embodiment

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

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Being objectified by another’s look constitutes an inescapable existential guilt — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 72; 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 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Acquaintance reveals only the other’s outward-facing self, not their essence #complicates (0.72) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 7794
• Rejecting all appearance as false illusion leads to losing truth itself #complicates (0.72) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 552