Husserlian protentions cannot explain consciousness’s surpassing of itself toward the not-yet.

Evidence

Strictly speaking, no fact of consciousness is this consciousness. Even if like Husserl we should quite artificially endow this consciousness with intra-structural protentions, these would have in them no way of surpassing the consciousness whose structure they are and hence would pitifully fall back on themselves—like flies bumping their noses on the window without being able to clear the glass. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 383

Categorization

• XREF: Sartre’s rejection of Husserl’s intra-structural protentions as ‘flies bumping their noses on the window’ is a pivotal break that the whole later existentialist tradition inherits. — connects to: Husserlian constitution differs from Nietzschean construction of reality. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 400
• QUESTION: Worth tracing how far this Husserl critique actually goes — does Sartre concede anything to the protention analysis elsewhere?

Broader Connections

• Husserlian constitution differs from Nietzschean construction of reality. #expands (0.72) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 400