An Ode To Shyness
Photo by Pragyan Bezbaruah
By Beli Green
“L’enfer c’est les autres”
Hell is other people; Jean-Paul Sartre wrote in his
Sartre wrote extensively on what the other’s gaze
play No Exit. By this, he didn’t mean that the
does to someone. In Being and Nothingness, he
presence of other people is insufferable, but that,
argues that without the gaze of the other, it is
should my relationship with others be tainted,
impossible to be aware of one’s self, since only
then life altogether becomes tainted.
through the other’s gaze can one see themselves as an object. Only through the other’s gaze can they see themselves from another perspective.
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