PP233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Thomas Nagel, Paraphilia, Facticity
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Our factual circumstances, physical, social environments, etc. A function of consciousness; in thought or imagination we transcend our facticity. Intimacy goes with sexual desire, but they are not always conjoined. The caress aims at the double reciprocal incarnation. The caress plays a role in us becoming complete. This completeness we aim at is the end of many of our other pursuits, notably our fundamental project. Sexual desire, per sartre, fits into our broader desire to be complete, a being-in-itself-for-itself. In this way, sexual desire reveals myself to myself. It is in this sense that sartre"s view is romantic. The look must be distinguished from the eyes. The eyes are empirical objects, they are two ocular globes . The look, on the other hand, is a phenomenological (or psychological) experience that refers me to myself . When two people look at each other, there is a sort of staring contest. Hegel characterized this contest with his master-slave dialectic.
