Engaged actions crystallize into relatively independent transcendent forms

Evidence

But this possibility of interrupting the action is rejected on a second level by the fact that the action which discovers itself to me through my act tends to crystallize as a transcendent, relatively independent form. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 246

Categorization

• XREF: Foreshadows the ‘practico-inert’ theme Sartre develops later; also connects to the toward-itself structure relevant to Beauvoir. — connects to: Constraints within activity domains paradoxically expand effective freedom of action — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 102; Contraction that gives forms also stores the energy that later explodes; Relation differs from totality by being self-active movement rather than static closure — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 863
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Constraints within activity domains paradoxically expand effective freedom of action — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 102; Contraction that gives forms also stores the energy that later explodes; Relation differs from totality by being self-active movement rather than static closure — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 863