The nothing beyond being constitutes the circuit of selfness

Evidence

The for-itself corresponds then to an expanding de-structuring of the in-itself, and the in-itself is nihilated and absorbed in its attempt to found itself. Facticity is not then a substance of which the for-itself would be the attribute and which would produce thought without exhausting itself in that very production. It simply resides in the for-itself as a memory of being, as its unjustifiable presence in the world. Being-in-itself can found its nothingness but not its being. In its decompression it nihilates itself in a for-itself which becomes qua for-itself its own foundation; but the contingency which the for-itself has derived from the in-itself remains out of reach. It is what remains of the in-itself in the for-itself as facticity and what causes the for-itself to have only a factual necessity; that is, it is the foundation of its consciousness-of-being or existence, but on no account can it found its presence. Thus consciousness can in no case prevent itself from being and yet it is totally responsible for its being. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 346 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Selfness means man is always separated from himself by being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 213; The for-itself’s self-relation constitutes the world as circuitry of selfness. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 386; Being-in-itself can found its nothingness but never its being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 346 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Selfness arises when the possible I am is reflected as absent-presence #expands (0.82)
• Being-in-itself can found its nothingness but never its being #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 346
• Self-presence requires an internal separation that is itself nothing #expands (0.80)