The for-itself’s relation to its future is a project toward its own suppression
Evidence
It is only as a lack to be suppressed that lack can be internal for the for-itself, and the for-itself can realize its own lack only by having to be it; that is, by being a project towards its suppression. Thus the relation of the for-itself to its future is never static nor given; the future comes to the present of the for-itself in order to determine it in its heart inasmuch as the for-itself is already there at the future as its suppression. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 615
Categorization
- XREF: The future-as-suppression structure directly grounds Beauvoir’s account in The Ethics of Ambiguity of how freedom projects toward goals that annul lack. — connects to: Self-foundation would require existing at a distance from oneself, collapsing into for-itself structures. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 341; The For-itself constitutes its Future by perpetually apprehending itself as unachieved; The For-itself can only found itself by projecting toward a future it never reaches — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 453 (+3 more)