Temporalized totality is never achieved but flees from itself.

Evidence

“Totalizing” does not imply a belief in the possibility of access to the totality, but rather a playing with the boundary itself, like a loose tooth, the comparison of notes and measurements that finally allows you to deduce the sound barrier itself, which, like the line between the analytic and the dialectic in Kant, can never be transgressed and somehow itself transcends experience. … Too many people begin to cancel my own existence with their ontological weight; my personal life — the unique form of private property remaining to me — grows pate and dim like the Homeric ghosts, or like a piece of real estate whose value has been driven down to a worthless handful of crumpled bills. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 775 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Thus the time of consciousness is human reality which temporalizes itself as the totality which is to itself its own incompletion; it is nothingness slipping into a totality as a detotalizing ferment. This totality which runs after itself and refuses itself at the same time, which can find in itself no limit to its surpassing because it is its own surpassing and because it surpasses itself toward itself, can under no circumstance exist within the limits of an instant. There is never an instant at which we can assert that the for-itself is, precisely because the for-itself never is. Temporality, on the contrary, temporalizes itself entirely as the refusal of the instant. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 501 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

If time is ‘the being which, in being, is not and in non-being, is’, then this also means, rigorously put: ‘Time itself is not what it is.’ Time is not always (simultaneously, successively, and permanently) the same as itself. The concept of time has its own moments: it differentiates itself and thus temporalizes itself. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 254 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reaching a projected future never delivers what was awaited, yielding structural disillusion — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 453; Consciousness’s temporality refuses the instant because the for-itself never is. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 501; Time is constituted by the For-itself’s nothingness rather than inhering in objects — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1524 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Totalizing approaches a boundary it can never actually cross #corroborates (0.90) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 775
• Consciousness’s temporality refuses the instant because the for-itself never is. #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 501
• The For-itself is a lack temporally outstripping and lagging itself #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 482
• Time is not identical to itself but differentiates and temporalizes itself #corroborates (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 254
• Hegelian time is dialectically differentiated and never fixed by its moments #corroborates (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 249
• The instant is only a nothingness; we perceive only continuous temporalization. #corroborates (0.80)
• The For-itself can only found itself by projecting toward a future it never reaches #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 453
• Time is constituted by the For-itself’s nothingness rather than inhering in objects #corroborates (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1524
• Temporality cannot be derived from atemporal being or imposed upon it #corroborates (0.75)
• Temporality is an internal structure of the For-itself, not external to it #corroborates (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 485
• Totality of being arises only through the detotalized for-itself #expands (0.70) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 585