Self-consciousness is the sole mode of existence for any consciousness of something

Evidence

This self-consciousness we ought to consider not as a new consciousness, but as the only mode of existence which is possible for a consciousness of something. Just as an extended object is compelled to exist according to three dimensions, so an intention, a pleasure, a grief can exist only as immediate self-consciousness. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 135

Categorization

• DEFINE: The core structural claim of the whole ontology: no ‘consciousness of object’ without an immediate self-consciousness that is not a separate second consciousness.
• XREF: connects to: Consciousness is necessarily consciousness of something, always self-consciousness through its object; Consciousness is a being that is conscious of the nothingness of its own being. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 277; Consciousness must lose itself in the absolute to attain self-consciousness — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 508 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Consciousness is necessarily consciousness of something, always self-consciousness through its object #corroborates (0.95)
• Consciousness is a being that is conscious of the nothingness of its own being. #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 277
• Consciousness grounds itself and precedes all nothingness #complicates (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 138
• Consciousness is a duality that is unity, irreducible to the in-itself #corroborates (0.80)
• Consciousness defines itself by internal negation of its own objects #expands (0.80)
• Consciousness must lose itself in the absolute to attain self-consciousness #qualifies (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 508
• The self is the individualized completion of concrete situated consciousness #expands (0.75)
• Nothingness is a supported recoil from Being that enables consciousness to exist #expands (0.75)