The three ekstases structure temporality, reflection, and the encounter with the Other

Evidence

Sartre’s three ekstases are: (1) The ever renewed internal negation of the In-itself by the For-itself. This involves the “diaspora” of the three temporal ekstases. In the present the For-itself is not anything. But it is present to the In-itself. In the light of what the For-itself chooses to make of the past (by which is meant that which the For-itself has been, an in-itself from which it is now separated by a nothingness) the For-itself thrusts itself toward the Future by choosing the Self which it will be. (2) The reflection by which the For-itself reflects on its original nihilation (a process known as pure reflection) and on its psychic states (impure reflection). (3) Being-for-others when the For-itself realizes that it has a Self which exists for the Other and which it can never know. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 73

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distills Sartre’s three ekstases — the internal nihilation of the In-itself (temporal), reflection (pure vs. impure), and the For-others.
• XREF: This is the systematic architecture Beauvoir inherits and redirects toward an ethics; maps onto Heidegger’s ecstatic temporality of Dasein. — connects to: Reflection reveals temporality as the historicity of the for-itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 521; Reflection divides into pure and impure kinds, distinguished by their relation to temporality — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 515; Perception apprehends objects through the ekstatic unity of past and present (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Reflection reveals temporality as the historicity of the for-itself #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 521
• Reflection divides into pure and impure kinds, distinguished by their relation to temporality #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 515
• Perception apprehends objects through the ekstatic unity of past and present #exemplifies (0.78)
• Reflection deepens the reflective-reflected split beyond self-consciousness #expands (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 802