circular-conflict

This chapter explores the concrete relations between the for-itself and the Other, emphasizing how the body situates these relations and how the for-itself is defined by its negation of the in-itself. Sartre discusses the dialectic of freedom and objectification that arises in the presence of the Other, highlighting two fundamental attitudes: attempting to assimilate the Other's freedom or transcending it. The chapter concludes by framing these relations as inherently conflictual and circular, with the Other's gaze both possessing and revealing the being-for-the-Other.