The ‘us’ experience means being objects together before alienating others.

Evidence

There is no question here of subjectivities qua subjectivities. In the sentence, “They are looking at me,” I want to indicate that I experience myself as an object for others, as an alienated Me, as a transcendence-transcended. If the sentence, “They are looking at us,” is to indicate a real experience, it is necessary that in this experience I make proof of the fact that I am engaged with others in a community of transcendences-transcended, of alienated “Me’s.” The “Us” here refers to an experience of being-objects in common. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1018

Categorization

• DEFINE: Parses the grammatical distinction between ‘we-as-subject’ and ‘we-as-object’ (us) into two ontologically distinct experiences.
• XREF: The us-as-object shared alienation is directly the mechanism Beauvoir formalizes as women constituted as the Other together before male gaze. — connects to: Being-for-others precedes and founds the experience of the we. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1017; A sudden common spectacle can dissolve interpersonal conflict into ‘we’ experience; The We-subject experience is a subjective psychological event, not an ontological relation — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1035 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• The We-subject experience is a subjective psychological event, not an ontological relation #contradicts (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1035
• The ‘we’ is a contingent individual experience, not an ontological structure or collective consciousness. #corroborates (0.85)
• The We-experience is secondary to and dependent on prior knowledge of the Other. #contradicts (0.75)
• The situation is constituted from Others’ meanings rather than from being itself #complicates (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 444
• Every human situation yields an Us experience once a Third appears #expands (0.75)
• Shared bodily experience anchors the cross-cultural sharing of other minds. #exemplifies (0.70)
• Shared humanity overcomes preconceived enemy divisions between strangers #corroborates (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 190