The We-experience is secondary to and dependent on prior knowledge of the Other.

Evidence

Thus the experience of the We-subject is based on the original experience of the Other and can be only a secondary and subordinate experience. … Quite the contrary, it is necessary that first there should be some awareness of what the Other is in order for an experience of my relations with Others to be realized in the form of the Mitsein. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1039

Categorization

• XREF: Establishes the priority order of the Other over the We, which is foundational groundwork for Beauvoir’s account of concrete intersubjectivity. — connects to: Being-for-others precedes and founds the experience of the we. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1017; The ‘us’ experience means being objects together before alienating others. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1018; Prior experience, not the traits of the new person, determines initial trust expectations.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Being-for-others precedes and founds the experience of the we. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1017; The ‘us’ experience means being objects together before alienating others. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1018; Prior experience, not the traits of the new person, determines initial trust expectations.

Broader Connections

• Prior experience, not the traits of the new person, determines initial trust expectations. #corroborates (0.78)