The Other is constituted by negation as the self which is not myself

Evidence

At the origin of the problem of the existence of others, there is a fundamental presupposition: others are the Other, that is the self which is not myself. Therefore we grasp here a negation as the constitutive structure of the being-of-others. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 675

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Other in its most basic sense: the self which is not myself, negation as constitutive structure.
• XREF: connects to: Negation arises in consciousness as the nihilation of another’s projected possibility. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 277; Some persons embody pure negation while irony posits and denies within one act.; The self flees each negation toward a complementary negation whose fusion reveals the in-itself (+28 more)

Broader Connections

• The Other relates to self through reciprocal internal negation, forming a detotalized totality #expands (0.92) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 712
• The negation relation with the Other is reciprocal unlike that with things #expands (0.90)
• The Other’s mutual negation is required for being-for-others, not merely my own #expands (0.88)
• Identity is constituted through relation to what is other and different from itself #corroborates (0.85) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 378
• Man defines woman not in herself but in relation to himself #exemplifies (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 13
• The Other is a concrete particular condition, not a formal category, of self-awareness #qualifies (0.75)
• The For-itself is not a substance but the nihilation of a particular In-itself #complicates (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1432