Sartre’s analysis of freedom is fragmented and internally inconsistent across Being and Nothingness

Evidence

Clarifying Sartre’s considered view of freedom proves diffi cult, since Sartre’s analysis spreads out over several hundred pages and suff ers from various inconsistencies, some real and others only apparent. Sartre’s initial analysis of limitation occurs in Part III, chapter 1, but rather suddenly disappears for some two hundred pages until Part IV, where Sartre examines interiorization— the process of internalizing social objectifi cations into one’s projects. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 212

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines interiorization as the process of internalizing social objectifications into one’s projects — a key Sartrean/Beauvoirian concept.
• XREF: connects to: Sartre’s philosophy forms a total system whose parts cannot be understood in isolation; Sartre’s own writings drift from lived body toward instrumental body — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 99; Sartre ultimately abandoned his early doctrine of absolute freedom — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 173 (+5 more)