Simply seeing an image of a woman, man, or scene can trigger the sex addict into
objectifying other people and fall into a relapse of sexual fantasizes.
Objectifying other people not only makes you a total jack - ass, it shows a lack of empathy and is indicative of how they will treat you.
You should think about who's hearing what you're saying and consider the democratic impact — be aware of how political debate risks undermining certain groups, such as minorities or women, and of the risk of silencing or
objectifying other voices.
As the analogue of «proximate matter» we have to take
the objectified other entities, or more exactly the «physical» prehensions of them that are objectified in the newly arising entity.
To recapitulate, a whole is a self - powered reality, both embracing and feeling many unalterable and
objectified others simultaneously, and creating a new specification (inclusive of the many felt) to be felt as a changeless determination by many superseding wholes.
If you don't feel comfortable masturbating because you feel like it takes you to a bad place where
you objectify other people, then don't do it.
It prehends the world from a certain perspective, one that can be determined from the relative fullness with which
it objectifies the other actual entities it takes as its data.
The «actual entities» or «actual occasions» are complexities which «have a grasp on each other,» which
objectify each other, and which partially integrate and interpenetrate each other.
Not exact matches
If a whole can only exist with its prehended parts
objectified together and in contrast, «concrescence» can only determine how the old parts (as already related to each
other) fit into the new specification being determined by the creativity of the present.
Perhaps little can be said, but this transition which originates a new process / whole must be carefully distinguished from the creative process which originates a new object / part, a one of many that is
objectified in
others.
In any case «creativity,» which takes the place of «primary matter» and which is supposed to be in itself just as indeterminate as the latter, constitutes the actuality of an actual entity» — its reality for itself and finally, as an «
objectified» entity, its reality for
others.
Though some of these examples of things that become do refer to what happens within the internal life of one actual entity, still
others refer to relationships between
objectified actual entities at transition.
Superseding
others just conform to it, even though (except for God) it must be perspectivally prehended and usually mediated by
others in closer proximity, exhibiting the H. A. Lorentz spatiotemporal transformation inherent in perspectival prehensions, that is, those necessarily including only some of all the immediately prior,
objectified contemporaries.
We see ourselves
objectified by each
other, used by each
other, rejected by each
other.
A new whole is «created» or «comes to be» at transition when what was subjective for two or more preceding
others, is immediately
objectified for a new subject.
''... God is losing in the sense of feeling, with unique adequacy, the feelings of all
others, entirely free from inferior emotions (except as vicariously participated in or sympathetically
objectified...» (DR 39, original italics).
Looked at from the point of view of its prehension of past occasions, an actual entity (say, in the personally ordered society of actual entities which constitute the «self» of a human being) can be viewed as conditioned by, caused by, the
other entities which it
objectifies.
It must also mean that
other human lives receive the subjective aim that they tell their tales according to the tale that is
objectified in Jesus (though Jesus» life is not the only disclosure of the plan of God).
(2) Some Whiteheadians may assume that earlier conscious personal occasions are privately
objectified only for later occasions within the same personally ordered society, and not for
other occasions in
other societies.
We never
objectify an object except in an interpreted form, and this is because we
objectify objects only by making them constituents of our own processes in which they must be selectively harmonized with
other constituents.
An actual entity in a personal society prehends itself in its immediate past along with prehensions of
other objectified past actual entities.
When his system of logic with its assumption of the theory of types was
objectified and compared with
other mathematical systems, it was shown to be paradoxical.
While the
objectified facts are invested with a certain levity, no longer fully sedimented, the logical subjects as an indicative system, on the
other hand, restrict the freedom of the proposition to apply to any actual entity in absolute generality.
On the
other hand, B may prehend A in such a way that the fact that it is A which it is prehending is of paramount importance for the subjective form of B rather than the particular aspect of A by which A is
objectified.
Every year, hundreds of movies are made with offensive sensibilities, glorifying violence,
objectifying women and
other, more troubling elements.
However, there are also indications that presentational immediacy may involve the
other major kind of propositional feeling, the imaginative: «Again in the transmuted feeling only part of the original nexus maybe
objectified, and the eternal object may have been derived from members of the
other part of the original nexus.
An entity not a part of the
objectified society, but of some
other, may perceive the form of the society as an
objectified property of the society.
Hence, the
objectified gods stood in an ambiguous relation to that
other primal religious reality that represented the apportionment to each entity of its lot or place.
There were her black - and - white negative thoughts, her rejection of help, her insistence on a definition of life as being able to take care of oneself, her use of
objectified terms (such as the new life stage of «miserable existence» to replace merely «feeling miserable»), her unsolicited speaking for
others, her legalistic analysis of the problem of euthanasia and doctor - assisted suicide, her exaggeration of minor and temporary discomforts, her refusal to accept family support — cumulatively resulting in her choice to be «in control» and die.
It seems to have been an abstract conception rather, with the feelings of reality and spatial outwardness directly attached to it — in
other words, a fully
objectified and exteriorized idea.
The question, however, is that of whether from the standpoint of a given actual entity, any
other portion of the extensive continuum but its own, can be
objectified as atomized.
In a sense, the «sign» bears a similarity to the eternally
objectified superject that allows the closure and repeatability of
objectified actual entities in
other actual entities which are no longer their temporal contemporaries.
Unfortunately, the second principle (namely, that the «power» of one actual entity upon another is simply how the former is
objectified in the constitution of the
other) tells us little about the sense in which the former entity can be said to be «
objectified» in its effect.
Referring to Locke, Whitehead says: «Locke adumbrates the principle that the «power» of one actual entity on the
other is simply how the former is
objectified in the constitution of the
other» (58).
Negatively, it meant that whatever aspect of conscious or unconscious experience could be conceptualized or
objectified was distinguished as
other than, alien from, and, finally, even indifferent to the self.
On the
other hand, if we abstract from that which feels, if we consider this process in view of the unification of
objectified occasions, then we can confirm that feeling relates to the «concept of the actual world,» that is to that nexus which achieves concrete unity in the feeling occasion, etc..
After its world, its subjectivity, this room for development, has been exhausted, after the achievement of its subjective aim, which is its supreme concretion and unity, it is now to be regarded as occurring in various
other processes of concrescence as
objectified, as a datum.
With their situations varying in every case,
objectified in differing ways by
other occasions, they enter into a multitude of contexts, and in so doing they pass along to
other processes the complexity which they have achieved and formed in their subjectivity as a «lure for feeling.»
Although the occasions in the environment of a self - concretizing occasion do not form exclusively its relative actual world and are not
objectified only by this occasion — although every occasion, standing in many different nexus with
other occasions, enters as their datum into many processes of concrescence — we must still adhere to this relativity of the actual world.
On the
other hand, Whitehead is of the momentous conviction that thought, in the abstraction, directly adapts itself to nature: «Thus «objectification» itself is abstraction; since no actual thing is «
objectified» in its «formal» completeness.
The conception of the «perishing» of the
objectified occasion in
other processes of concretion has been so important for Whitehead that he declared it to be the key to Process and Reality (cf. ESP 117).
In
other words, if there is a divine scheme of purposefulness that envelops and grounds the dimensions of our emergent cosmos, we would not be able to grasp it in an
objectifying, controlling way.
These offerings, whenever they begin and however long it takes to make them, must be
objectified in some cosmic moment or
other, lust as that cosmic process begins, in order to assure nothing is lost.
They spend 18 years
objectifying the birth family, nullifying any connection, and then when the child is an adult says «well I would never do anything to stop you from searching now», never acknowledging that they spent 18 years drumming it into a child's head that they shouldn't care about who this
other family was.
Modest proposal to avoid the mess up at the Miss Universe pageant: Don't
objectify women & pit them against each
other for a fucking princess tiara.
It's an exploitation movie that knowingly abuses the male gaze and then turns that uncivilized, leering lens on its head, placing us squarely in the shoes of its brutalized angel of vengeance (Matilda Anna Lutz), as she's
objectified by her married lover (Kevin Janssens) and two
other animals she's literally flown in to spend a scandalous weekend with, before becoming a piece of meat they literally hunt in the desert after she's violated by their most mulish member.
In
other words, they are stereotyped and two - dimensional female characters so that sensitive indi boys and hipsters don't miss out on
objectifying women.
Some may disagree but I see this as
objectifying women, which has been going on - in one form or
other - basically forever.
Sexually
objectified women are valued primarily for their bodies, or body parts, which are presented as existing for the pleasure and gratification of
others.