Anguish before freedom and anguish before nothingness describe the same phenomenon.

Evidence

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)

Yet as I am already what I will be (otherwise I would not be interested in any one being more than another), I am the self which I will be, in the mode of not being it. It is through my horror that I am carried toward the future, and the horror nihilates itself in that it constitutes the future as possible. Anguish is precisely my consciousness of being my own future, in the mode of not-being. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 239 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Anguish reveals the double nihilation that suspends the world in nothingness — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 213; Fear and anguish are the same situation judged from opposite directions of causality — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 236; The supposed intuition of freedom is a constructed evasion of anguish (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The supposed intuition of freedom is a constructed evasion of anguish #expands (0.85)
• Anguish arises when consciousness sees itself cut from its essence by nothingness #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 246
• Anguish is consciousness of being one’s own future in the mode of not-being #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 239
• Freedom is identical with the for-itself’s nothingness expressed as temporality, self-presence, and transcendence #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1099
• Bad faith arises because humans as negativity face anguish before their freedom #corroborates (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 31