Sartre translated Hegelian and ontological lack into socio-economic need

Evidence

It is instructive to compare the new version to that of Being and Nothingness, where the very origin of action (as nothingness in a domain of pure being, i.e., of objects) was found in the structure of the human being as lack, as ontological privation, attempting to satisfy itself, to fulfill itself, and thereby to arrive at some definitive state of being. … The new term for this process is need, which is little more than a translation of the ontological terminology into a relatively more socio-economic kind. Both are, of course, Hegelian in origin: not only is the notion of human action, work, experience as a negation of existing being characteristic of Hegel; but for him the very history of self-consciousness begins precisely with desire (Begierde), which functions, however, in much the same way as Sartre’s idea of need. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 469

Categorization

• XREF: This is precisely the Frankfurt-School lineage the reader is tracing — how Sartre’s socialized critique revises the earlier phenomenological version, analogous to Lukács translating German idealism into class terms. — connects to: Sartre’s reading recast Beauvoir’s Hegelian consciousness-world unity into his own lack-and-negation framework — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 244; Sartre’s Critique reworked Marxist economism into praxis-language for a new era of revolutionary ferment

Broader Connections

• Sartre’s Critique reworked Marxist economism into praxis-language for a new era of revolutionary ferment #corroborates (0.85)
• Sartre’s reading recast Beauvoir’s Hegelian consciousness-world unity into his own lack-and-negation framework #expands (0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 244