Reflective self-recovery produces only distance and reflective nothingness

Evidence

Thus reflection or the attempt to recover the for-itself by a turning back on itself results in the appearance of the for-itself for the for-itself. The being which wants to find a foundation in being is itself the foundation only of its own nothingness. The ensemble consequently remains a nihilated in-itself. At the same time the turning back of being on itself can only cause the appearance of a distance between what turns back and that on which it turns. This turning back upon the self is a wrenching away from self in order to return to it. It is this turning back which effects the appearance of reflective nothingness. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 513

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the mechanism by which reflection generates distance and nothingness rather than self-coincidence.
• XREF: connects to: Reflection cannot be modeled as knowledge of knowledge without regress; Reflective consciousness alone can dissociate itself from what it posits — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 330; Reflection deepens the reflective-reflected split beyond self-consciousness — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 802 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Reflection deepens the reflective-reflected split beyond self-consciousness #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 802
• Reflection aims impossibly to unify the for-itself with itself into a totality #corroborates (0.84)
• Reflection aims to make the self-coincident being that consciousness can never simply be #corroborates (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 511
• Reflection splits consciousness in a split never completed #expands (0.80)
• Reflection is an intermediate stage of nihilation between self-existence and existence-for-others #qualifies (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 513