Reflective consciousness discloses values as the meaning of what is lacked

Evidence

It is not at all a contemplative apprehension of my fatigue; rather, as we saw with respect to pain, I suffer my fatigue. That is, a reflective consciousness is directed upon my fatigue in order to live it and to confer on it a value and a practical relation to myself. It is only on this plane that the fatigue will appear to me as bearable or intolerable. It will never be anything in itself, but it is the reflective For-itself which rising up suffers the fatigue as intolerable. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1103 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Being-for-itself (être-pour-soi). The nihilation of Being-in-itself; consciousness conceived as a lack of Being, a desire for Being, a relation to Being. By bringing Nothingness into the world the For-itself can stand out from Being and judge other beings by knowing what it is not. Each For-itself is the nihilation of a particular being. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1460 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Practical consciousness is non-reflective and discloses the world as instrumentality; Value is the absent in-itself that consciousness perpetually surpasses toward — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 369; Consciousness is defined as a lack or desire for Being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1460 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Fatigue becomes bearable or intolerable only through reflective consciousness conferring value #exemplifies (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1103
• Consciousness is defined as a lack or desire for Being #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1460