Consciousness of self is identical with consciousness of the object, not a separate act

Evidence

Every conscious existence exists as consciousness of existing. We understand now why the first consciousness of consciousness is not positional; it is because it is one with the consciousness of which it is consciousness. At one stroke it determines itself as consciousness of perception and as perception. The necessity of syntax has compelled us hitherto to speak of the “non-positional consciousness of self.” But we can no longer use this expression in which the “of self” still evokes the idea of knowledge. (Henceforth we shall put the “of” inside parentheses to show that it merely satisfies a grammatical requirement.) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 134

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the pivotal notational shift from ‘consciousness of self’ to ‘consciousness (of) self’ — the parentheses mark that the ‘of’ is grammatical, not epistemic.
• XREF: This pre-reflective self-consciousness is the exact structure Beauvoir inherits when she builds an ethics on situated freedom — worth tracking into her account of ambiguity. — connects to: Self-consciousness need not posit the self as an object — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 10; Consciousness defines itself by internal negation of its own objects; The Ego exists as an object of pre-reflective consciousness, not as a repudiated entity. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 82 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Choice and consciousness are identical rather than separate acts #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1116
• Consciousness is necessarily directed at a being other than itself #qualifies (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 151