The Ego appears only when consciousness reflects on itself.

Evidence

But that is not true: to affirm that the consciousness (of) belief is consciousness (of) belief is to dissociate consciousness from belief, to suppress the parenthesis, and to make belief an object for consciousness; it is to launch abruptly on to the plane of reflectivity. … It is on the reflective level only that we can attempt an , a putting between parentheses, only there that we can refuse what Husserl calls the mitmachen. The consciousness (of) belief, while irreparably altering belief, does not distinguish itself from belief; it exists in order to perform the act of faith. Thus we are obliged to admit that the consciousness (of) belief is belief. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 330 (#expands, via linked claim)

The goal in short is to overtake that being which flees itself while being what it is in the mode of not-being and which flows on while being its own flow, which escapes between its own fingers; the goal is to make of it a given, a given which finally is what it is; the problem is to gather together in the unity of one regard this unachieved totality which is unachieved only because it is to itself its own non-achievement, to escape from the sphere of the perpetual reference which has to be a reference to itself, and-precisely because it has escaped from the chains of this reference-to make it be as a seen reference-that is, as a reference which is what it is. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 511 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The pre-reflective cogito is non-personal and contains no Ego — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 11; The Ego exists as an object of pre-reflective consciousness, not as a repudiated entity. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 82; Reflective consciousness alone can dissociate itself from what it posits — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 330 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Reflective consciousness alone can dissociate itself from what it posits #expands (0.92) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 330
• Personality arises from consciousness’s reflective self-presence, not from the Ego #expands (0.88)
• Reflection aims to make the self-coincident being that consciousness can never simply be #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 511
• The singulars’ automatic distribution requires no Ego; it is the work of no one #contradicts (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1126