Abstract
Chapter 5 (on Being and Nothingness Part II) examines Sartre’s for-itself in greater depth. It explores the character of consciousness as ‘existing for a witness’ and then turns to Sartre’s notions of internal relations and possibility, contingency, facticity, and lack. On Sartre’s view, philosophical prejudices for the existent and the external have prevented an accurate understanding of these notions—for they are not only abstract concepts but lived experiences. Each demonstrates the futility of consciousness in search of lost being. Chapter 4 demonstrated that Sartre’s nothingness renders self-knowledge problematic; Chapter 5, in turn, shows further the psychological effects of nothingness.
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