The body’s substratum is only apprehended in the corpse

Evidence

The walking itself, a pure, inapprehensible, and nihilating becoming is the present. But this present is a surpassing toward a future goal on the part of something which is walking; beyond the pure and inapprehensible present of the movement of the arm we attempt to grasp the substratum of the movement. This substratum, which we never apprehend as it is except in the corpse, is yet always there as the surpassed, the past. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 906

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the relation between the body’s lived movement (nihilating present) and its facticity as surpassed past-being — the in-itself.
• XREF: Directly anticipates Beauvoir’s account of the body as situation and its ‘flesh’ dimension — the systematic backdrop the reader wants. — connects to: Only the dead remain permanent objects, never revealing themselves as subjects — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 797; The body seen from another’s viewpoint is a thing, not lived — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 923; The dead body becomes just another object among the world’s forms — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 2557 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The dead body becomes just another object among the world’s forms #expands (0.85) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 2557
• The body seen from another’s viewpoint is a thing, not lived #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 923
• The body is primarily known as the Other’s body, not one’s own #corroborates (0.75)
• The body grounds a psychic space lacking all ordinary spatial structure. #complicates (0.72)