The Immediate Structures of the for-Itself

The law of being of the for-itself as the ontological foundation of consciousness is to be itself in the form of self-presence. The being of consciousness&s;, we wrote in our Introduction, &s;is a being for whom in its being there is a question of its being. Consciousness is characterized, on the contrary, by its decompression of being. The introduction of an external and qualified element from outside the cogito into the unity of a prereflective cogito would break its unity and destroy its translucency; there would be something in consciousness that it was not conscious of, something that did not itself exist as consciousness. The separation that separates belief from itself cannot be grasped, or even conceived, on its own. Human-reality instantiates being in so far as it is, in its being and for its being, the unique foundation of the nothingness at the heart of being.

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