Denise

For the Other I am irremediably what I am, and my very freedom is a given characteristic of my being...the in-itself recaptures me at the threshold of the future and fixes me wholly in my very flight, which becomes a flight foreseen and contemplated, a given flight. But this fixed flight is never the flight which I am for myself; it is fixed outside. The objectivity of my flight I experience as an alienation which I can neither transcend nor know. Yet by the sole fact that I experience it and that it confers on my flight that in-itself which it flees, I must turn back toward it and assume attitudes with respect to it. Such is the origin of my concrete relations with the Other; they are wholly governed by my attitudes with respect to the object which I am for the Other...JPS