The speech-thought circle is the ekstatic structure of situation itself, not a linguistic defect

Evidence

Thus speech refers to thought and thought to speech. But we understand now that there is no circle or rather that this circle—from which linguists and psychologists believed they could escape by the invention of pure psychological idols such as the verbal image or an imageless, wordless thought—is not unique with speech; it is the characteristic of the situation in general. It means nothing else but the ekstatic connection of the present, the future, and the past—that is, the free determination of the existent by the not-yet-existing and the determination of the non-yet-existing by the existent. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1221

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘ekstatic connection’ as the mutual free determination of present/future/past and existent/not-yet-existing.
• XREF: Directly prepares Beauvoir’s notion of situated freedom — that ambiguity follows from this ekstatic temporality rather than being an epistemic accident.