Ungraceful movement exposes the performer’s raw unadapted facticity to others

Evidence

Nevertheless if the body is wholly within the act, the facticity is not yet flesh. The obscene appears when the body adopts postures which entirely strip it of its acts and which reveal the inertia of its flesh. The sight of a naked body from behind is not obscene. But certain involuntary waddlings of the rump are obscene. This is because then it is only the legs which are acting for the walker, and the rump is like an isolated cushion which is carried by the legs and the balancing of which is a pure obedience to the laws of weight. It can not be justified by the situation; on the contrary, it is entirely destructive of any situation since it has the passivity of a thing and since it is made to rest like a thing upon the legs. Suddenly it is revealed as an unjustifiable facticity; it is de trop like every contingent. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 993 (#expands, via linked claim)

Consequently the first characteristic which strikes us is the reapprehension of the For-itself by Being, as if the For-itself no longer had the strength to sustain its own nothingness. That deep fissure which the For-itself has to be is filled up; the Nothingness which must “be made-to-be” ceases to be, is expelled with the result that Being-For-itself, made past, becomes a quality of the In-itself. … The Past is a fatality in reverse. The For-itself can make itself what it wishes, but it can not escape from the necessity of being irremediably—for a new For-itself—what it has wished to be. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 495 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The obscene is revealed facticity stripped of its acts and situation — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 993; Past actions become irrevocable facts the for-itself cannot escape — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 495; The Theater of the Ridiculous foregrounded role-playing itself as its subject

Broader Connections

• The obscene is revealed facticity stripped of its acts and situation #expands (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 993
• The Theater of the Ridiculous foregrounded role-playing itself as its subject #exemplifies (0.75)
• Past actions become irrevocable facts the for-itself cannot escape #expands (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 495