Desire
Ongoing series exploring the different states of desire in relation to the world and attitudes towards others.
Looking at Sartre's understanding of desire he differentiates between different corporal stages of desire, including being-for itself and being-for-others.
(Being And Nothingness: Jean-Paul Sartre)
The Body as Being-for-Others
In Being-for-Others the world becomes a world of desire through the presence of the Other whom I desire.
In absence of the Other I can discover my body in solitude and my Being-for-others becomes empty. I realize myself as flesh, ‘suffocated’ with desire, and experience the world as ‘suffocating’.
The Body as Being-for-Itself
In Being-for-Itself desire is aimed at the Self, as a conscious body that is being-for-itself.
Who is the one who desires?
I am the one who desires, for the For-Itself. To choose itself as desire is not to produce a desire while remaining indifferent and unchanged.
The Body as Being-for-Others
The Body as Being-for-Itself
