The Psyche is the object of impure reflection, not of unreflective consciousness.

Evidence

The “Psychic” is given solely to a special category of cognitive acts—the acts of the reflective For-itself. On the unreflective plane, in fact, the For-itself is its own possibilities in the non-thetic mode; and since its possibilities are possible presences to the world beyond the given state of the world, what is revealed thetically but non-thematically across these possibilities is a state of the world synthetically bound with the given state. Consequently the modifications to be imposed on the world are given thetically in present things as objective potentialities which have to realize themselves by borrowing our body as the instrument of their realization. It is thus that the man who is angry sees on the face of his opponent the objective quality of asking for a punch in the nose. Hence we have such expressions as “itching to be spanked” or “asking for trouble.” Our body here is like a medium in a trance. … We use the term Psyche for the organized totality of these virtual and transcendent existents which form a permanent cortege for impure reflection and which are the natural object of psychological research. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 536

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Psyche as the totality of virtual, transcendent existents that impure reflection makes its object.
• XREF: connects to: The Ego exists as an object of pre-reflective consciousness, not as a repudiated entity. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 82; Impure reflection constitutes the psyche while pure reflection requires a katharsis — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 526; Reflection aims to make the self-coincident being that consciousness can never simply be — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 511 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Impure reflection creates the psyche as a made-to-be virtual object #corroborates (0.92) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 550
• Reflection aims to make the self-coincident being that consciousness can never simply be #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 511