An essence is radically severed from the single appearance that manifests it

Evidence

These potentialities or probabilities, which are the meaning of being beyond being, are in-itself beyond being, and precisely for this reason they are nothings. The essence of the inkwell is made-to-be as a correlate of the possible negation of the for-itself, but it is not the inkwell and it is not being. In so far as this essence is in-itself, it is a negation hypostasized and reified; that is, it is a nothing, it belongs to the shell of nothingness which encases and determines the world. The for-itself reveals the inkwell as an inkwell. But this revelation is made beyond the being of the inkwell, in that future which is not; all the potentialities of being, from permanence to qualified potentialities, are defined as that which being is not yet without ever truly having to be them. Here again knowledge adds nothing to being and removes nothing from it; knowledge adorns it with no new quality. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 613 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Anguish in fact is the recognition of a possibility as my possibility; that is, it is constituted when consciousness sees itself cut from its essence by nothingness or separated from the future by its very freedom. This means that a nihilating nothing removes from me all excuse and that at the same time what I project as my future being is always nihilated and reduced to the rank of simple possibility because the future which I am remains out of my reach. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 246 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Essence is the manifest law of appearances, itself an appearance — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 116; Essence is a reified nothingness that knowledge neither adds nor removes — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 613; Anguish arises when consciousness sees itself cut from its essence by nothingness — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 246 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• If being consisted of manifesting essence, no pure being moment would be isolable #expands (0.85)
• Essence is a reified nothingness that knowledge neither adds nor removes #complicates (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 613
• Anguish arises when consciousness sees itself cut from its essence by nothingness #corroborates (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 246
• Rejecting all appearance as false illusion leads to losing truth itself #complicates (0.78) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 552
• Subjectivity cannot reside in its own being but haunts itself #corroborates (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 374
• Woman’s mystery reflects that essence does not precede existence #expands (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 662