Being-for-others is the third ekstasis, after the nihilation and reflection

Evidence

What appears to us first is the fact that the being-for-others represents the third ekstasis of the for-itself. The first ekstasis is indeed the tridimensional projection on the part of the for-itself toward a being which it has to be in the mode of non-being. It represents the first fissure, the nihilation which the for-itself has to be, the wrenching away on the part of the for-itself from everything which it is, and this wrenching away is constitutive of its being. The second ekstasis or reflective ekstasis is the wrenching away from this very wrenching away. The reflective scissiparity corresponds to a vain attempt to take a point of view on the nihilation which the for-itself has to be, in order that this nihilation as a simply given phenomenon may be a nihilation which is. But at the same time reflection wants to recover this wrenching away, which it attempts to contemplate as a pure given, by affirming concerning itself that it is this nihilation which is. This is a flagrant contradiction: in order to be able to apprehend my transcendence, I should have to transcend it. But my own transcendence can only transcend. I am my own transcendence; I can not make use of it so as to constitute it as a transcendence-transcended. I am condemned to be forever my own nihilation. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 801

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the three ekstases of the for-itself: primal nihilation, reflection, and being-for-others, plus why reflection fails as self-apprehension.
• XREF: connects to: Reflection is an intermediate stage of nihilation between self-existence and existence-for-others — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 513; Being-for-others is suffered rather than actively existed; Body-for-others is studied through the identity of my-being-for-the-Other structures (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Reflection is an intermediate stage of nihilation between self-existence and existence-for-others #expands (0.95) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 513
• Being-for-others is suffered rather than actively existed #qualifies (0.80)
• Body-for-others is studied through the identity of my-being-for-the-Other structures #expands (0.80)
• Reflection emerges as a new consciousness living in symbiosis with the consciousness reflected-on. #corroborates (0.80)