Abstract Focusing on Simone de Beauvoir’s debut novel, She Came to Stay , this article zooms in on the face as a particular body part and introduces two new terms into the philosophical lexicon: enfaced consciousness and facial alienation . Connecting the philosophical underpinnings of She Came to Stay to the work of other canonical figures in existential phenomenology as well as Beauvoir’s subsequent works, this paper argues that the face is a premier site of the ambiguity of existence.
Shayna Federico (2025) studied this question.