In possession the for-itself seeks to become its own foundation as in-itself

Evidence

But precisely because I am always somewhere outside of myself, as an incompleteness which makes its being known to itself by what it is not, now when I possess, I transfer myself to the object possessed. In the relation of possession the dominant term is the object possessed; without it I am nothing save a nothingness which possesses, nothing other than pure and simple possession, an incompleteness, an insufficiency, whose sufficiency and completion are there in that object. In possession, I am my own foundation in so far as I exist in an in-itself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1374

Categorization

• XREF: Shows possession as a response to the for-itself’s constitutive lack and incompleteness, foundational for reading Beauvoir’s account of desire. — connects to: The for-itself is the in-itself’s failed self-founding that nihilates it — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 346; The for-itself desires to be its own foundation without annihilating its consciousness. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 361; The cogito’s self-apprehension is first a grasp of its own contingency. (+11 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The for-itself is the in-itself’s failed self-founding that nihilates it — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 346; The for-itself desires to be its own foundation without annihilating its consciousness. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 361; The cogito’s self-apprehension is first a grasp of its own contingency. (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Possession is a magical relation projecting the ideal of the in-itself-for-itself #corroborates (0.95)