Q. What am ‘I’?
A. The flux of consciousness constituting itself as the
a) unity of itself
b) ‘who’ is what he is not and the ‘who’ is not what he is
Thus ‘I’ is not what at any instant they might want to say I am. I am that towards which I project myself but am not yet.
[Jean-Paul Satre’s L’etre et le Neant has to be the most convoluted book I’ve ever read and I remember that after having leafed through half of it, the above was what I had to jot down so that I had a platform from which to approach what he was going on about… needless to say knowing ‘I’ did not help in knowing JPS]
PS: in no way am I trying to insinuate that I am ‘The Who’.
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