Psychic temporality is constituted by reflection, not original temporality

Evidence

Thus the reflective consciousness is constituted as consciousness of duration, and hence psychic duration appears to consciousness. This psychic temporality as a projection into the in-itself of original temporality is a virtual being whose phantom flow does not cease to accompany the ekstatic temporalization of the for-itself in so far as this is apprehended by reflection. But psychic temporality disappears completely if the for-itself remains on the un-reflective level or if impure reflection purifies itself. Psychic temporality is similar in this respect to original temporality—in that it appears as a mode of being of concrete objects and not as a limit or a pre-established rule. Psychic time is only the connected bringing together of temporal objects. But its essential difference from original temporality is that it is while original temporality temporalizes itself. As such psychic time can be constituted only with the past, and the future can be only as a past which will come after the present past; that is, the empty form before-after is hypostasized, and it orders the relations between objects equally past. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 549

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the difference between psychic temporality (constituted, virtual, past-oriented) and original ekstatic temporality (self-temporalizing).
• XREF: Grounds Beauvoir’s temporal themes of becoming and the lived present in the for-itself’s ekstatic time. — connects to: No felt quality can distinguish memory from imagination; Temporal unity cannot be rebuilt from atemporal substances; The psychic object is constituted in the past, not in lived temporality (+8 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 549

Broader Connections

• Reflection reveals temporality as the historicity of the for-itself #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 521
• The psychic object is constituted in the past, not in lived temporality #contradicts (0.80)
• Everyday psychic duration stands opposed to authentic historicity #corroborates (0.80)
• Reflection divides into pure and impure kinds, distinguished by their relation to temporality #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 515
• Natural bodily changes constitute an early, deficient experience of temporality #complicates (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 341