Bad faith perpetuates itself like dreaming and resists waking

Evidence

One puts oneself in bad faith as one goes to sleep and one is in bad faith as one dreams. Once this mode of being has been realized, it is as difficult to get out of it as to wake oneself up; bad faith is a type of being in the world, like waking or dreaming, which by itself tends to perpetuate itself, although its structure is of the metastable type. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 317

Categorization

• XREF: This foreshadows and grounds Beauvoir’s account of women choosing bad faith as a stabilized, self-sustaining mode of evasion; the ‘metastable’ structure maps onto her ethics of ambiguity as the refusal of ambiguity.
• DEEPTHINKING: The image of bad faith as a self-sustaining state like sleep/dream, coupled with the metastability structural diagnosis, is dense enough to sit with: once adopted, bad faith recruits its own perpetuating mechanisms and resists voluntary exit.