Impure reflection constitutes the psyche while pure reflection requires a katharsis

Evidence

Here we must distinguish between pure reflection and impure or constituent reflection, for it is impure reflection which constitutes the succession of psychic facts or psyche. What is given first in daily life is impure or constituent reflection although this includes pure reflection as its original structure. But pure reflection can be attained only as the result of a modification which it effects on itself and which is in the form of a katharsis. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 526

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the pure vs. impure (constituent) reflection distinction — the mechanism by which the psyche is built — and introduces katharsis as the route to pure reflection.
• XREF: This pure/impure reflection split is the systematic ground for bad faith: impure reflection manufactures the psychic ‘I’ that bad faith manipulates. Directly relevant to the reader’s stated goal of grounding Beauvoir’s ethics. — connects to: Impure reflection creates the psyche as a made-to-be virtual object — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 550; The Psyche is the object of impure reflection, not of unreflective consciousness. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 536; Reflection divides into pure and impure kinds, distinguished by their relation to temporality — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 515 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Impure reflection creates the psyche as a made-to-be virtual object #expands (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 550
• The Psyche is the object of impure reflection, not of unreflective consciousness. #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 536
• Reflection divides into pure and impure kinds, distinguished by their relation to temporality #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 515
• Reflection is an intermediate stage of nihilation between self-existence and existence-for-others #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 513
• Reflection is consciousness attempting to become its own object #expands (0.75)
• Reflection aims to make the self-coincident being that consciousness can never simply be #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 511
• Reflection deepens the reflective-reflected split beyond self-consciousness #complicates (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 802