The Other’s look reveals my body as an object-for-others

Evidence

With the appearance of the Other’s look I experience the revelation of my being-as-object; that is, of my transcendence as transcended. A me-as-object is revealed to me as an unknowable being, as the flight into an Other which I am with full responsibility. But while I can not know nor even conceive of this “Me” in its reality, at least I am not without apprehending certain of its formal structures. In particular I feel myself touched by the Other in my factual existence; it is my being-there-for-others for which I am responsible. This being-there is precisely the body. Thus the encounter with the Other does not only touch me in my transcendence: in and through the transcendence which the Other surpasses, the facticity which my transcendence nihilates and transcends exists for the Other; and to the extent that I am conscious of existing for the Other I apprehend my own facticity, not only in its non-thetic nihilation, not only in the existent, but in its flight towards a being-in-the-midst-of-the-world. The shock of the encounter with the Other is for me a revelation in emptiness of the existence of my body outside as an in-itself for the Other. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 913

Categorization

• XREF: This is the core the-for-itself/for-others split that Beauvoir builds on throughout The Second Sex; connects directly to the reader’s stated goal of a Beauvoir backdrop. — connects to: Being objectified by another’s look constitutes an inescapable existential guilt — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 72; The Other’s look displaces my world’s center and objectifies me. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 92; Being seen by the Other freezes my lived situation into a fixed in-itself form (+17 more)
• DEFINE: Defines how the body shifts from lived facticity to being-there-for-others under the Other’s look.

Broader Connections

• The Other’s gaze imposes unchosen determinations on my being #expands (0.88) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1229
• Shame first reveals one’s factical body because the Other’s look falls on embodiment #corroborates (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 97
• Even first-person knowledge of my own body is mediated by the Other’s concepts #corroborates (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 919