The 'other' passes you by and fixes you with a Lynx like stare
this 'other' person has made you sense your subjectivity
because you have been subjected to this 'look; Ellie Anderson argues that there is a '...constitutive ambiguity between the freedom appropriate to subjectivity and the phenomenon of being an erotic object in intimate encounters and that '...we we are always both subject and object in our encounters with others and that there is a constitutive ambiguity between the freedom appropriate to subjectivity and the phenomenon of being an erotic object in intimate encounters.
Simone de Beauvoir describes as ambiguity, that is, the simultaneous sense of being a free subjectivity and being exposed as a corporeal object to others being an erotic object for another is a central feature of virtually all erotic encounters.
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