The Look and the Alienated Body

Being and Nothingness

This thread traces how being seen transforms lived embodiment into an exterior identity that consciousness cannot fully recover.

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The Body Lived The Body Lived from "Being and Nothingness". The Body Lived A Point of View The body is the contingent center through which things appear and actions become possible.

The Body Lived from "Being and Nothingness". The Body Lived A Point of View The body is the contingent center through which things appear and actions become possible.

The Body Lived A Point of View The body is the contingent center through which things appear and actions become possible. It is not first an object known from outside. Inapprehensibility The body is present in action but cannot itself be made a complete object for the consciousness that lives it.

The Other's Body The Other's Body from "Being and Nothingness". The Other's Body Meaningful Form The Other's body is encountered as an organized totality of action and situation.

The Other's Body from "Being and Nothingness". The Other's Body Meaningful Form The Other's body is encountered as an organized totality of action and situation.

The Other's Body Meaningful Form The Other's body is encountered as an organized totality of action and situation. Gestures are perceived as meaningful rather than inferred from anatomy. Facticity Its flesh marks a contingent presence within the world, while its actions exceed that presence toward ends.

Being-For-Others Being-For-Others from "Being and Nothingness". Being-For-Others A New Dimension The self exists as a body known by another.

Being-For-Others A New Dimension The self exists as a body known by another. This exterior dimension is experienced but cannot be seen from the self's own point of view. Alienation The body's meaning escapes the person who lives it and is available to another freedom's interpretation.

Shyness and Appearance Shyness and Appearance from "Being and Nothingness". Shyness and Appearance The Body Seen Shyness arises when a person experiences the body as it may appear to another, not as it is lived from within.

Shyness and Appearance from "Being and Nothingness". Shyness and Appearance The Body Seen Shyness arises when a person experiences the body as it may appear to another, not as it is lived from within.

Shyness and Appearance The Body Seen Shyness arises when a person experiences the body as it may appear to another, not as it is lived from within. Failed Control Attempts to manage posture or expression cannot secure the body's meaning. The very effort to control it can become another object for the Other.

The Psychic Body The Psychic Body from "Being and Nothingness". The Psychic Body Reflection's Object Reflection can organize pain into illness and the body into a quasi-object that seems to endure beyond particular…

The Psychic Body from "Being and Nothingness". The Psychic Body Reflection's Object Reflection can organize pain into illness and the body into a quasi-object that seems to endure beyond particular…

The Psychic Body Reflection's Object Reflection can organize pain into illness and the body into a quasi-object that seems to endure beyond particular episodes. Alienated Knowledge The body known through language and others' concepts is not the lived body itself; it is a body constituted from an external standpoint.

Part Three, Chapter Two, Section I

Part Three, Chapter Two, Section II

Part Three, Chapter Two, Section III, opening

Part Three, Chapter Two, Section III, discussion of shyness

Part Three, Chapter Two, Section III, pain and illness discussion