Jean-Paul Sartre's phenomenological ontology distinguishing being-in-itself (the brute facticity of things) from being-for-itself (consciousness, which is nothingness negating itself) and developing radical freedom, bad faith, and the conflict of consciousnesses.
Consciousness is nothingness — it is always what it is not and is not what it is; this radical negativity is freedom. Bad faith is the denial of one's own freedom. The Other's look objectifies — intersubjectivity is fundamentally conflictual.
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