(J.P. Sartre: Being and Nothingness)
Hearing footsteps behind him/herself, a voyeur being caught peeping through a door, becomes self-conscious that someone else is looking at him/her. This 'irruption of the self', as Satre calls it, makes us aware of ourselves by being discovered by someone else.
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| Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau / 2° le gaz d'éclairage |
The real subject of the Marcel Duchamp's Étant donnés is not the naked woman with her enlightened vagina, but the spactator, peeping through the door.
I see myself because somebody else sees me.
Con celui qui voit.


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