Negation arises in consciousness as the nihilation of another’s projected possibility.

Evidence

In a prohibition or a veto, for example, the human being denies a future transcendence. But this negation is not explicative. My consciousness is not restricted to envisioning a négatité. It constitutes itself in its own flesh as the nihilation of a possibility which another human reality projects as its possibility. For that reason it must arise in the world as a Not; it is as a Not that the slave first apprehends the master, or that the prisoner who is trying to escape sees the guard who is watching him. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 277

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Negation inhabits everyday felt realities like absence and regret; Negation enters the world through questioning, a pre-judicative relation to being. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 189; Negation is presented to intuition as a double nihilation before any judgment is made — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 193 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Negation is constituted as ekstatic through its relation to the future #expands (0.85)
• The for-itself’s negation of being has a future-extending ekstatic dimension #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 604
• Consciousness defines itself by internal negation of its own objects #corroborates (0.80)
• Negation structures many everyday realities, not just judgments #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 219
• Abstract essence arrives from the future as the meaning of present negation #expands (0.75)
• The duality of negations grounding being-for-others is irreducible to any synthesis #expands (0.70)
• The Other is constituted by negation as the self which is not myself #expands (0.70) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 675