Bad faith arises because humans as negativity face anguish before their freedom

Evidence

One may hesitate to make oneself a lack of being, one may withdraw before existence, or one may falsely assert oneself as being, or assert oneself as nothingness. One may realize his freedom only as an abstract independence, or, on the contrary, reject with despair the distance which separates us from being. All errors are possible since man is a negativity, and they are motivated by the anguish he feels in the face of his freedom. Concretely, men slide incoherently from one attitude to another. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 31

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is the direct seed of the typology of bad faith (sub-man, serious man, nihilist, adventurer, passionate man) that the reader is classifying people into — the ‘attitudes’ listed here become the types.
• XREF: Foregrounds the reader’s core goal: ‘abstract independence’ points to the nihilist, ‘falsely assert oneself as being’ to the serious man, ‘reject with despair the distance’ toward the passionate man. — connects to: Psychological guilt stems from evading one’s absolute freedom through bad faith — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 71; Anguish before freedom and anguish before nothingness describe the same phenomenon.; Anguish is freedom’s self-apprehension, opposed to the serious man’s faith in external values — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 253 (+4 more)