Shame precedes reflection and arises from an opaque self-relation

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)

The sensitive totality is, in its capacity as an individual, essentially the tendency to distinguish itself in itself, and to wake up to the judgment in itself, in virtue of which it has particular feelings and stands as a subject in respect of these aspects of itself. The subject as such gives these feelings a place as its own in itself. In these private and personal sentiments it is immersed, and at the same time, because of the ‘ideality’ of the particulars, it combines itself in them as a subjective unit. In this way it is selffeeling. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 372 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

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; Self-avoidance differs from hiding external objects because the self is translucent — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 259; Shame is fundamentally experienced in the presence of another person — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 659 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Shame first reveals one’s factical body because the Other’s look falls on embodiment #expands (0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 97
• The Other is an invisible presence that supports shame without being an object #expands (0.75)
• Self-feeling arises from the subject’s self-differentiating judgment on its own feelings #qualifies (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 372
• Reflection deepens the reflective-reflected split beyond self-consciousness #complicates (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 802