The other’s presence reduces one to a utensil, experienced precognitively as unease.
Evidence
My own possibilities are turned into probabilities beyond my control. I am no longer the master of the situation – or at least the situation has gained a dimension which escapes me. I have become a utensil with which and upon which the Other may act. I realize this experience not by way of cognition, but by a sentiment of uneasiness or discomfort, which, according to Sartre, is one of the oustanding features of the human condition. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 506
Categorization
- DEFINE: Schutz’s gloss on Sartre gives a precise formulation of alter-ego encounter as loss of mastery turned into visceral discomfort.
- XREF: connects to: Being subordinate to a thing reduces a person psychologically to a thing; The Other’s gaze reveals one’s own nausea as fleshly object.
Related
- The Other’s gaze reveals one’s own nausea as fleshly object. (similarity 0.79)
- Being seen alienates my flight into an object I cannot escape (similarity 0.79)