Authenticity as full self-identity is impossible because iterability makes self-presence unattainable in principle

Evidence

To engage in analytical and interpretative activity with a full awareness of the circularity of determinate Being is then the articulation of authentic Dasein. In its broad outlines, this might seem sympathetic to the deconstructive project. In its detail, a certain rewriting becomes necessary. Iterability, as I have indicated, takes away the possibility of a full awareness. It rewrites the enclosure of the circle as, at best, an ellipse that stands in for the impossibility of pure or geometric figuration. The end of the project—the articulation of authentic Dasein—becomes impossible because authenticity—Eigentlichkeit (ownness, properness, literalness, trueness)— is at the limit a denial of the lack of self-identity which Heidegger himself posits and which in Derrida becomes irreducible. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 767

Categorization

• XREF: The impossibility of Eigentlichkeit-as-full-self-identity maps onto the question of whether an essentialist identity position can be held without genuine residence — both rest on the same denial of original non-self-identity. — connects to: Self-presence and self-possession are not origins but products of absence and deferral — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 679; Identity is always impure because repetition identifies by altering — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 723; Iterability names the process by which repetition both enables and corrupts identity — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 721 (+17 more)

Broader Connections

• Self-presence requires an internal separation that is itself nothing #corroborates (0.90)
• The For-itself’s being consists in internal negation rather than self-coincidence #corroborates (0.88) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 445
• Sincerity is impossible because consciousness’s structure prevents being what one is #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 305
• The for-itself lacks a for-itself, not an in-itself, in its project of self-identification #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 373
• A self that is both fully authentic and fully business-oriented cannot logically exist #exemplifies (0.82) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 514
• Human reality arises as a lack of an impossible self-totality #corroborates (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 362
• Self-perception is impossible because the for-itself is contingency #corroborates (0.80)
• Authentic selfhood requires enduring anxiety rather than escaping it through self-justification #complicates (0.80)