God is the hypostasized ideal of the impossible self-synthesis

Evidence

Let no one reproach us with capriciously inventing a being of this kind; when by a further movement of thought the being and absolute absence of this totality are hypostasized as transcendence beyond the world, it takes on the name of God. Is not God a being who is what he is—in that he is all positivity and the foundation of the world—and at the same time a being who is not what he is and who is what he is not—in that he is self-consciousness and the necessary foundation of himself? The being of human reality is suffering because it rises in being as perpetually haunted by a totality which it is without being able to be it, precisely because it could not attain the in-itself without losing itself as for-itself. Human reality therefore is by nature an unhappy consciousness with no possibility of surpassing its unhappy state. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 363

Categorization

• DEFINE: Derives the concept of God from the for-itself’s projected totality, defining God as needing to be both in-itself and for-itself — incoherent by definition.
• XREF: The ‘unhappy consciousness’ is borrowed consciously from Hegel’s Phenomenology; also the essential setup for Beauvoir’s insistence that failure is constitutive of the human condition but not a reason for quietism. — connects to: Every human being fundamentally desires to be God, a desire that is inherently self-contradictory. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 57; The human ideal of God is a self-contradictory synthesis of the in-itself and for-itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 67; The humanistic Us-object is an unattainable ideal demanding the correlative concept of God — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1032 (+8 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The move from a definitional construct to ‘human reality is by nature an unhappy consciousness with no possibility of surpassing its unhappy state’ is a paradigm-defining conclusion — the for-itself cannot reach the in-itself without annihilating itself, so lack is not an affliction but the structure of being human.

Broader Connections

• Narcissism attempts the impossible in-itself for-itself synthesis that defines divinity #exemplifies (0.95) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1793
• Human reality is the pure effort to become God, desire being its expression #exemplifies (0.88) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1348
• The humanistic Us-object is an unattainable ideal demanding the correlative concept of God #corroborates (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1032
• Idealism denies objective knowledge and makes God a creation of the intellect. #exemplifies (0.72)