What do we know of the Other?

"FOR the Other I am irremediably what I am, and my very freedom is a given characteristic of my being. Thus, the in-itself recaptures me at the threshold of the future and fixes me wholly in my very flight, which becomes a flight foreseen and contemplated, a given flight.

But this fixed flight is never the flight which I am for myself; it is fixed outside. The objectivity of my flight, I experience as an alienation, which I can neither transcend nor know. Yet by the sole fact that I experience it and that it confers on my flight that in-itself which it flees, I must turn back toward it and assume attitudes with respect to it." (J.P. Sartre, Being and Nothingness)