The Body's Three Dimensions

Being and Nothingness

This thread follows the changing account of the body as lived facticity, as an object for others, and as an alienated self.

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Against the Anatomical Body Against the Anatomical Body from "Being and Nothingness". Against the Anatomical Body A Misleading Start The body seen on a dissecting table is the body-for-others, not the body lived from within.

Against the Anatomical Body from "Being and Nothingness". Against the Anatomical Body A Misleading Start The body seen on a dissecting table is the body-for-others, not the body lived from within.

Against the Anatomical Body A Misleading Start The body seen on a dissecting table is the body-for-others, not the body lived from within. Treating it as the first body creates a false mind-body problem. Method The inquiry separates ontological dimensions rather than trying to fuse inner consciousness with an external object.

Body as Point of View Body as Point of View from "Being and Nothingness". Body as Point of View Facticity in the World The body is the contingent center from which a world is disclosed.

Body as Point of View from "Being and Nothingness". Body as Point of View Facticity in the World The body is the contingent center from which a world is disclosed.

Body as Point of View Facticity in the World The body is the contingent center from which a world is disclosed. It is not an instrument standing between consciousness and things. Consequence To exist in a particular place and perspective is already to have a body; body and situation cannot be separated.

Senses as World Relations Senses as World Relations from "Being and Nothingness". Senses as World Relations Rejecting Sensation The argument rejects inner sensory contents that must later be combined into objects.

Senses as World Relations from "Being and Nothingness". Senses as World Relations Rejecting Sensation The argument rejects inner sensory contents that must later be combined into objects.

Senses as World Relations Rejecting Sensation The argument rejects inner sensory contents that must later be combined into objects. Perception already gives objects in a world. Sense as Orientation The senses are the objective perspective through which the world is revealed, while the body remains the ungrasped center of that perspective.

Pain and the Lived Body Pain and the Lived Body from "Being and Nothingness". Pain and the Lived Body Pain Without an Inner Object Pain is not a sensation stored inside consciousness.

Pain and the Lived Body from "Being and Nothingness". Pain and the Lived Body Pain Without an Inner Object Pain is not a sensation stored inside consciousness.

Pain and the Lived Body Pain Without an Inner Object Pain is not a sensation stored inside consciousness. It is the body as consciousness lives its contingency and its engagement in the world. Reflection When reflected upon, pain can become illness, a psychic object with its own apparent duration and opacity.

Flesh and the Look Flesh and the Look from "Being and Nothingness". Flesh and the Look Body for Others The Other's body appears as meaningful action and situation, not as an anatomical object assembled from parts.

Flesh and the Look from "Being and Nothingness". Flesh and the Look Body for Others The Other's body appears as meaningful action and situation, not as an anatomical object assembled from parts.

Flesh and the Look Body for Others The Other's body appears as meaningful action and situation, not as an anatomical object assembled from parts. Its flesh is disclosed through the look. Alienated Self The self discovers that its body also exists outside its reach, as a being known and interpreted by others.

Part Three, Chapter Two, opening

Part Three, Chapter Two, Section I

Part Three, Chapter Two, Section I, discussion of the senses

Part Three, Chapter Two, Section I, discussion of bodily pain

Part Three, Chapter Two, Sections II–III