Unconsciousness is the precondition for consciousness to emerge.

Evidence

It is because men are, so to speak, decentered by the determinate conditions under which they live and produce, and depend on circumstances and conditions which are not of their making and which they enter involuntarily, that they cannot, in any full and uncontradictory sense, be the collective authors of their actions. Their practice cannot “un-mediatedly” realize their goals and intentions. Hence the terms through which men “make sense” of their world, experience their objective situation as a subjective experience, and “come to consciousness” of who and what they are, are not in their own keeping and will not, consequently, transparently reflect their situation. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 886 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: All perception is unconscious projection that civilization must learn to control; Consciousness is a temporary fold in being, not separate from it — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 739; Material conditions beyond voluntary control determine how people come to consciousness. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 886 (+2 more)

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• Consciousness is a temporary fold in being, not separate from it (similarity 0.78)
• Maximum self-consciousness only reveals thought’s irrecoverable unconsciousness (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Maximum self-consciousness only reveals thought’s irrecoverable unconsciousness #corroborates (0.80)
• Material conditions beyond voluntary control determine how people come to consciousness. #expands (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 886