The psychic body is the body as passive matter projected into the in-itself.

Evidence

The illness is mine in this sense that I give to it its matter. I apprehend it as sustained and nourished by a certain passive environment in which the passivity is precisely the projection into the in-itself of the contingent facticity of the pains. It is my passivity. This passive environment is not apprehended for itself except as the matter of the statue is apprehended when I perceive its form, and yet it is there. The illness feeds on this passivity and magically derives new strength from it just as Antaeus was nourished by the earth. … We shall call it a psychic body. It is not yet known in any way, for the reflection which seeks to apprehend the pain-consciousness is not yet cognitive. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 884

Categorization

• DEFINE: Coins ‘psychic body’ as the body-as-passivity given to a non-cognitive reflective affectivity.
• XREF: Grounds how Beauvoir treats woman’s body as a ‘given’ passivity onto which society projects meaning. — connects to: The body as facticity is grounded in the nihilation of the in-itself at birth.; The psychic body gives psychic phenomena a substrate of contingency grounded in materiality.; The body’s immobility as surpassed facticity is the pure in-itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 906

Broader Connections

• The psychic body gives psychic phenomena a substrate of contingency grounded in materiality. #expands (0.85)
• The body’s immobility as surpassed facticity is the pure in-itself #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 906