The for-itself’s interrogative being keeps consciousness in perpetual suspense

Evidence

Thus the for-itself is an absolute Unselbständig, what we have called a non-substantial absolute. Its reality is purely interrogative. If it can posit questions this is because it is itself always in question; its being is never given but interrogated since it is always separated from itself by the nothingness of otherness. The for-itself is always in suspense because its being is a perpetual reprieve. If it could ever join with its being, then the otherness would by the same stroke disappear and along with it possibles, knowledge, the world. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1433

Categorization

• DEFINE: Crystallizes the defining ontological structure of the for-itself as non-substantial, interrogative, always in suspense.
• XREF: The ‘perpetual reprieve’ and interrogative being directly feed Beauvoir’s notion of ambiguity as humanity’s essential condition. — connects to: The meaning of historical events remains perpetually in suspense; The For-itself’s being consists in internal negation rather than self-coincidence — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 445; The For-itself constitutes its Future by perpetually apprehending itself as unachieved (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The For-itself’s being consists in internal negation rather than self-coincidence #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 445
• The For-itself constitutes its Future by perpetually apprehending itself as unachieved #expands (0.85)
• The for-itself constitutes itself through an original negation of the thing #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 571
• A perpetual failed synthesis keeps the in-itself and for-itself inseparable yet independent #expands (0.80)