Concrete Relations with the Other

The for-itself as nihilation of the in-itself temporalizes itself as flight towards. In effect, it surpasses its facticity - or its being given, or its past, or its body — towards the in-itself that it would be if it were able to be its own foundation. The loved one is the one who looks. The lover&s;s freedom, in its very effort to make itself loved as an object by the other, alienates itself as it flows into his body-for-theother; in other words, it produces in its existence a dimension of flight away towards the other; this freedom is a constant refusal to posit itself as pure ipseity, because this affirmation of itself as itself would lead to the collapse of the Other as look, and to the arising of the object-other and therefore to a state of affairs where the very possibility of being loved disappears, since the other is reduced to her dimension of objectivity.

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