Self-consciousness no longer functions as an adequate foundation for thought

Evidence

Whether or not the impact of psychoanalysis and linguistics, on the one hand, or the end of individualism, on the other, are satisfactory explanations, it is certain that the notion of “self-consciousness” is today in crisis and no longer seems to do the work it was thought able to perform in the past; it no longer strikes people as an adequate foundation for what it used to ground or complete. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 539

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the chapter’s ‘waning of affect’ thesis and the general postmodern decentering of the subject — relevant to the reader’s cognitive-map project. — connects to: Self-consciousness is not an added quality layered onto a psychic event — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 135; Consciousness is being, not merely self-knowledge, so knowledge’s primacy must be abandoned — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 128; Self-consciousness extends the cogito beyond the instant into one’s global project — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1117 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Self-consciousness is not an added quality layered onto a psychic event — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 135; Consciousness is being, not merely self-knowledge, so knowledge’s primacy must be abandoned — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 128; Self-consciousness extends the cogito beyond the instant into one’s global project — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1117 (+3 more)