Temporality exists only as the intra-structure of the For-itself, which temporalizes itself.

Evidence

What can we conclude as the result of this discussion? First of all this: temporality is a dissolving force but it is at the center of a unifying act; it is less a real multiplicity—which could not subsequently receive any unity and which consequently would not even exist as a multiplicity—than a quasi-multiplicity, a foreshadowing of dissociation in the heart of unity. … Temporality is not. Only a being of a certain structure of being can be temporal in the unity of its being. The before and after are intelligible, as we have observed, only as an internal relation. It is there in the after that the before causes itself to be determined as before and conversely. In short the before is intelligible only if it is the being which is before itself. This means that temporality can only indicate the mode of being of a being which is itself outside itself. Temporality must have the structure of selfness. Indeed it is only because the self in its being is there outside itself that it can be before or after itself, that there can be in general any before and after. Temporality exists only as the intra-structure of a being which has to be its own being; that is, as the intra-structure of a For-itself. Not that the For-itself has an ontological priority over temporality. But Temporality is the being of the For-itself in so far as the For-itself has to be its being ekstatically. Temporality is not, but the For-itself temporalizes itself by existing. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 471

Categorization

• DEFINE: The core Sartrean move: temporality is not a being but the mode of a being that has to be itself outside itself — the ekstatic structure of the For-itself.
• XREF: This directly sets up the backdrop to Beauvoir’s ethics, where freedom and temporality intertwine; also connects to Heidegger’s ecstatic temporality which Sartre is refining. — connects to: Temporality is an internal structure of the For-itself, not external to it — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 485; Time is constituted by the For-itself’s nothingness rather than inhering in objects — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1524; The instant is only a nothingness; we perceive only continuous temporalization. (+5 more)
• BMF: The idea that temporality is not a container but a self that is outside itself evokes We by Zamyatin, where the linear time-state society denies this ekstatic self-transcendence — the ‘we’ who must become ‘I’ over time.

Broader Connections

• Temporality is an internal structure of the For-itself, not external to it #expands (0.95) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 485
• Time is constituted by the For-itself’s nothingness rather than inhering in objects #expands (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1524
• Temporality is the necessary horizon for the for-itself’s transcendence #expands (0.85)
• Consciousness’s temporality refuses the instant because the for-itself never is. #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 501
• Temporality cannot be derived from atemporal being or imposed upon it #corroborates (0.85)
• Time is not identical to itself but differentiates and temporalizes itself #contradicts (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 254
• The instant is only a nothingness; we perceive only continuous temporalization. #expands (0.80)
• The For-itself can only found itself by projecting toward a future it never reaches #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 453