The Other’s look makes one’s own possibilities into ambivalent instruments

Evidence

And I grasp the Other not in the clear vision of what he can make out of my act but in a fear which lives all my possibilities as ambivalent. The Other is the hidden death of my possibilities in so far as I live that death as hidden in the midst of the world. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 733

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: In the ‘they’ mode the world reflects one’s unauthentic possibilities back as interchangeable instruments. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 700; One’s own possibilities become instruments for the Other’s aims; Under the Other’s gaze I become an instrumental complex ordered around the look (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: In the ‘they’ mode the world reflects one’s unauthentic possibilities back as interchangeable instruments. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 700; One’s own possibilities become instruments for the Other’s aims; Under the Other’s gaze I become an instrumental complex ordered around the look (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• One’s own possibilities become instruments for the Other’s aims #corroborates (0.92)
• Under the Other’s gaze I become an instrumental complex ordered around the look #expands (0.85)
• Musical instruments are engineered to suppress higher partials to avoid dissonance #exemplifies (0.72)