Personality arises from consciousness’s reflective self-presence, not from the Ego

Evidence

Just as duration can be determined only in the presence of alternation, and just as it is only the alternation of nonessential properties that throws constancy of substance into bold relief, so too the ego is apparently perceived as the one constant in all the alternation of psychological contents, especially when these contents provide a particularly rich opportunity. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 703 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

The goal in short is to overtake that being which flees itself while being what it is in the mode of not-being and which flows on while being its own flow, which escapes between its own fingers; the goal is to make of it a given, a given which finally is what it is; the problem is to gather together in the unity of one regard this unachieved totality which is unachieved only because it is to itself its own non-achievement, to escape from the sphere of the perpetual reference which has to be a reference to itself, and-precisely because it has escaped from the chains of this reference-to make it be as a seen reference-that is, as a reference which is what it is. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 511 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The pre-reflective cogito is non-personal and contains no Ego — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 11; The Ego exists as an object of pre-reflective consciousness, not as a repudiated entity. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 82; The Ego appears only when consciousness reflects on itself. (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Selfness arises when the possible I am is reflected as absent-presence #expands (0.80)
• Reflection aims to make the self-coincident being that consciousness can never simply be #complicates (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 511
• Ego emerges as the constant amid rapid psychic alternation #contradicts (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 703
• Divine self-presence is opened up by an internal distance rather than merely broken #expands (0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 858
• The singulars’ automatic distribution requires no Ego; it is the work of no one #corroborates (0.70) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1126