Selfness means man is always separated from himself by being

Evidence

The characteristic of selfness (Selbstheit), in fact, is that man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to himself from the other side of the world and he looks from the horizon toward himself to recover his inner being. Man is “a being of distances.” — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 213

Categorization

• XREF: This ‘being of distances’ schema prefigures Sartre’s own for-itself/being-in-itself separation — groundwork for the systematic backdrop to Beauvoir. — connects to: Selfness arises when the possible I am is reflected as absent-presence; Self-presence requires an internal separation that is itself nothing; The nothing beyond being constitutes the circuit of selfness (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Selfness arises when the possible I am is reflected as absent-presence #expands (0.90)
• Self-presence requires an internal separation that is itself nothing #expands (0.85)
• The nothing beyond being constitutes the circuit of selfness #corroborates (0.80)