In Being and Nothingness situation was backdrop rather than constituent of freedom

Evidence

In Being and Nothingness, the situation was merely a backdrop, the condition from which our freedom would try to free itself, or would use to reveal itself (it is this dimension of Sartrean thought that is rendered by the provocative and brisk formula: “We were never as free as under the German occupation”). — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 456

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with the ‘situation as constituent’ view in later chapters; connects to the Beauvoir–Sartre authorship/influence debate central to this book. — connects to: Empirical freedom is a secondary nihilation that presupposes an original nothingness — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 262; Freedom and situation are mutually constituting rather than opposites — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1164; Freedom is synonymous with the for-itself’s lack of being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1328 (+1 more)