The Body's Contingency and Pain

Being and Nothingness

This thread follows how bodily pain reveals facticity as something lived, reflected upon, and eventually known through others.

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Bearing strength in each event

decreasing

Pain in the Eyes Pain in the Eyes from "Being and Nothingness". Pain in the Eyes Reading Continues A person reads while the eyes hurt.

Pain in the Eyes Reading Continues A person reads while the eyes hurt. The book remains the object of attention, and the body is lived as the point of view of reading. Non-Positional Pain The pain is not first an object in space. It is the body's contingent presence within the act.

The Body as Ground The Body as Ground from "Being and Nothingness". The Body as Ground Background Contingency The body can remain present as a ground while a particular task occupies consciousness.

The Body as Ground from "Being and Nothingness". The Body as Ground Background Contingency The body can remain present as a ground while a particular task occupies consciousness.

The Body as Ground Background Contingency The body can remain present as a ground while a particular task occupies consciousness. Its details are not thereby absent or unconscious. Figure and Ground A bodily pain may become prominent when an action reorganizes the body's field of significance.

Reflection Constitutes Illness

Reflection Constitutes Illness Psychic Object Reflection can gather individual pains into an apparent, enduring illness. The illness seems to possess a rhythm and identity beyond each twinge. Degradation This unity projects consciousness's temporal organization into a thing-like psychic object.

The Disease Diagnosed The Disease Diagnosed from "Being and Nothingness". The Disease Diagnosed Knowledge from Others A physician's diagnosis supplies concepts through which the sufferer can understand the body as a disease.

The Disease Diagnosed from "Being and Nothingness". The Disease Diagnosed Knowledge from Others A physician's diagnosis supplies concepts through which the sufferer can understand the body as a disease.

The Disease Diagnosed Knowledge from Others A physician's diagnosis supplies concepts through which the sufferer can understand the body as a disease. This knowledge comes from outside the original pain. Alienated Body The bodily condition becomes an object with meanings the sufferer cannot directly live or verify from within.

Nausea and Facticity Nausea and Facticity from "Being and Nothingness". Nausea and Facticity Persistent Taste When no particular pain dominates, the body can appear as a dull, inescapable taste of existence.

Nausea and Facticity from "Being and Nothingness". Nausea and Facticity Persistent Taste When no particular pain dominates, the body can appear as a dull, inescapable taste of existence.

Nausea and Facticity Persistent Taste When no particular pain dominates, the body can appear as a dull, inescapable taste of existence. Nausea discloses contingency without a determinate object. Meaning Empirical disgust arises on the ground of this more basic apprehension of embodied being.

Part Three, Chapter Two, Section I, example of reading

Part Three, Chapter Two, Section I, continuation of the pain example

Part Three, Chapter Two, Section I, reflection on pain

Part Three, Chapter Two, Section III, discussion of the disease

Part Three, Chapter Two, Section I, final discussion