Being-in-itself is so full of itself it cannot reflect or affirm.

Evidence

Being is equally beyond negation as beyond affirmation. Affirmation is always affirmation of something; that is, the act of affirming is distinguished from the thing affirmed. But if we suppose an affirmation in which the affirmed comes to fulfill the affirming and is confused with it, this affirmation can not be affirmed—owing to too much of plenitude and the immediate inherence of the noema in the noesis. It is there that we find being—if we are to define it more clearly—in connection with consciousness. It is the noema in the noesis; that is, the inherence in itself without the least distance. From this point of view, we should not call it “immanence,” for immanence in spite of all connection with self is still that very slight withdrawal which can be realized—away from the self. But being is not a connection with itself. It is itself. It is an immanence which can not realize itself, an affirmation which can not affirm itself, an activity which can not act, because it is glued to itself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 162

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the core Sartrean definition of being as noema in noesis, self-glued immanence without distance.
• XREF: This is the systematic backdrop to Beauvoir — the in-itself’s plenitude is the foil against which the for-itself and freedom are defined. — connects to: Being-in-itself can found its nothingness but never its being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 346; The In-itself’s full being makes the emergence of consciousness inexplicable; The for-itself is only the emptiness where the in-itself detaches — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 576 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Being-in-itself can found its nothingness but never its being #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 346
• The In-itself’s full being makes the emergence of consciousness inexplicable #expands (0.80)
• The in-itself and for-itself are two radically separated regions of being #corroborates (0.78)
• The for-itself is only the emptiness where the in-itself detaches #qualifies (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 576