The Ego exists as an object of pre-reflective consciousness, not as a repudiated entity.

Evidence

In the first place Sartre has not repudiated the Ego; he has only made of it an object of the pre-reflective consciousness rather than contemporary with it. But it exists just as much as objects in the world exist. Also Sartre never denies the existence of an active, organizing (constituante), individual consciousness any more than does William James, who likewise rejected consciousness as an entity. He merely insists that it is essentially a Nothingness which is individualized by its objects but never wholly determined by past objects to an extent which would prescribe what it will do with present or future ones. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 82

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the precise technical sense in which Sartre ‘rejects’ the Ego: relocated as an object of consciousness, not abolished.
• XREF: The Ego as mere object of pre-reflective consciousness (rather than its contemporary) is groundwork for Beauvoir’s ethics of ambiguous freedom — the self is never a fixed substance. — connects to: The pre-reflective cogito is non-personal and contains no Ego — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 11; The Psyche is the object of impure reflection, not of unreflective consciousness. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 536; The Ego is a transcendent in-itself, not of consciousness’s nature. (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Pre-reflective consciousness is itself a form of self-consciousness #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 331
• The Ego appears only when consciousness reflects on itself. #expands (0.85)
• The Psyche is the object of impure reflection, not of unreflective consciousness. #qualifies (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 536
• Consciousness of self is identical with consciousness of the object, not a separate act #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 134
• Reflection aims to make the self-coincident being that consciousness can never simply be #expands (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 511
• The Ego is a transcendent in-itself, not of consciousness’s nature. #contradicts (0.75)
• The ego is a late product of projection, not a primordial given. #contradicts (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 149
• Personality arises from consciousness’s reflective self-presence, not from the Ego #expands (0.70)