Anguish can arise alone where success or worth is at stake rather than survival

Evidence

In a word, I am my Future in the constant perspective of the possibility of not being it. Hence that anguish which we have described above which springs from the fact that I am not sufficiently that Future which I have to be and which gives its meaning to my present: it is because I am a being whose meaning is always problematic. … In short the For-itself is free, and its Freedom is to itself its own limit. To be free is to be condemned to be free. Thus the Future qua Future does not have to be. It is not in itself, and neither is it in the mode of being of the For-itself since it is the meaning of the For-itself. The Future is not, it is possibilized. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 454 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Anguish arises because the self’s future identity is never guaranteed — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 454

Broader Connections

• Anguish arises because the self’s future identity is never guaranteed #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 454