The Essay's Account of Desire

Being and Nothingness

This thread follows the shift from desire as a private appetite to desire as an embodied relation with another person.

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Bearing strength in each event

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Desire's Object Desire's Object from "Being and Nothingness". Desire's Object Beyond Appetite Desire cannot be reduced to a wish for pleasure or the ending of discomfort.

Desire's Object from "Being and Nothingness". Desire's Object Beyond Appetite Desire cannot be reduced to a wish for pleasure or the ending of discomfort.

Desire's Object Beyond Appetite Desire cannot be reduced to a wish for pleasure or the ending of discomfort. It reaches toward another person as an object in the world. Organic Totality The desired body is apprehended as a living whole in situation, not as an assemblage of isolated physiological parts.

Desire Makes Itself Body Desire Makes Itself Body from "Being and Nothingness". Desire Makes Itself Body Facticity Desire lets consciousness experience its own body as a heavy, troubling presence rather than merely as an instrument of…

Desire Makes Itself Body from "Being and Nothingness". Desire Makes Itself Body Facticity Desire lets consciousness experience its own body as a heavy, troubling presence rather than merely as an instrument of…

Desire Makes Itself Body Facticity Desire lets consciousness experience its own body as a heavy, troubling presence rather than merely as an instrument of action. Ambivalence The desiring person seeks to be flesh while still pursuing a future state. Desire both surrenders to the body and exceeds it.

The World of Desire The World of Desire from "Being and Nothingness". The World of Desire Altered Perception The world changes with desire.

The World of Desire Altered Perception The world changes with desire. Objects are experienced through warmth, texture, resistance, and proximity rather than only through practical use. Relation to the Other This sensual world is not merely solitary. It calls for another body whose freedom is encountered through embodied presence.

The Body as Flesh The Body as Flesh from "Being and Nothingness". The Body as Flesh Double Incarnation The desiring person attempts to appear as flesh in order to awaken the Other to their own flesh.

The Body as Flesh from "Being and Nothingness". The Body as Flesh Double Incarnation The desiring person attempts to appear as flesh in order to awaken the Other to their own flesh.

The Body as Flesh Double Incarnation The desiring person attempts to appear as flesh in order to awaken the Other to their own flesh. The project seeks reciprocal embodiment. Impossible Possession The Other's freedom remains beyond grasp even when the body is physically present. Desire tries to make that freedom appear within facticity.

Desire's Circular Failure Desire's Circular Failure from "Being and Nothingness". Desire's Circular Failure Appropriation Breaks Reciprocity Taking the Other as an object interrupts the caress's reciprocal movement.

Desire's Circular Failure from "Being and Nothingness". Desire's Circular Failure Appropriation Breaks Reciprocity Taking the Other as an object interrupts the caress's reciprocal movement.

Desire's Circular Failure Appropriation Breaks Reciprocity Taking the Other as an object interrupts the caress's reciprocal movement. Desire turns toward possession and reopens the conflict it sought to soften. Reversal Pleasure, desire, and the attempt to grasp freedom repeatedly displace one another without producing a stable union.

Part Three, Chapter Three, Section II, opening of desire analysis

Part Three, Chapter Three, Section II, discussion of troubled consciousness

Part Three, Chapter Three, Section II, after the account of embodiment

Part Three, Chapter Three, Section II, discussion of incarnation

Part Three, Chapter Three, Section II, conclusion