The For-itself constitutes its Future by perpetually apprehending itself as unachieved

Evidence

The project of the For-itself toward the future which it is is a project toward the In-itself. In this sense the For-itself has to be its future because it can be the foundation of what it is only before itself and beyond being. It is the very nature of the For-itself that it must be “an always future hollow.” For this reason it will never have become, in the Present, what it had to be, in the Future. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 453 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

While we have had to proceed in this way for the sake of clarity in exposition, we should not thereby conclude that being is revealed to a being which would be first presence in order afterwards to constitute itself a future. But being-in-itself is revealed to a being which arises as about-to-come to itself. This means that the negation which the for-itself makes itself be in the presence of being has an ekstatic dimension of the future; it is in so far as I am not what I am (an ekstatic relation to my own possibilities) that I have to not-be being-in-itself as the revealing realization of the this. That means that I am presence to the “this” in the incompleteness of a totality detotalized. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 604 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The future is a lack the For-itself must be, not a not-yet now — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 450; 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; The for-itself’s relation to its future is a project toward its own suppression — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 615 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• The For-itself can only found itself by projecting toward a future it never reaches #corroborates (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 453
• The future is what the For-itself has yet to become, its determining possible being. #expands (0.85)
• The for-itself’s negation of being has a future-extending ekstatic dimension #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 604
• The for-itself’s relation to its future is a project toward its own suppression #expands (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 615
• The For-itself is a lack temporally outstripping and lagging itself #qualifies (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 482