The root of all inauthentic manifestations of being-with-others is the attitude of self-concern
A major feature of self-concern is that by introverting all attention upon the projects of oneself alone, it tends to reduce the presence of others to that of mere objects
This we have an I-It situation in which we no longer genuinely encounter another person, but another thing.
[Self-concern is] composed of desirous attachment, aversion, and indifference [all] rooted in the underlying sense of the other as objectified, minimized, and subordinated to the far greater concern of I.
the actual reversal of the roles of self and other, so that one comes to consider oneself as "him" or "her," and others as "I."
