And that ground? Perhaps Sartre glimpsed it when he mused inSaint
Genet:
Only a being which is not entirely can have the sense of nonbeing...In order to
form an image, one must disconnect oneself from being and project oneself toward
that which is not yet or that which is no longer. In short, one mustmake oneself a
nothingness. What a galling amusement it is to find in our most authentic product the
reflection of our finiteness: the same insufficiency enables man to form images and
prevents him from creating being.
(SG 359 )
This “insufficiency” (the imaginary) would be the ground of that
hope “that is part of man,”^6 “that has always been one of the dominant
forces of revolutions and insurrections,”^7 and that is the very locus of
our possibility, negativity and lack.
(^6) Hope 53.
(^7) Ibid., 110.
412 Conclusion