#topographie/motte # From 2022-01-24 Jean-Paul Sartre defined a duality between what defines us in facts – or the cumulation of every experiences of your life – and every potential futures of your being. He called those two concept *facticity* and *transcendance*, respectively. There's an ambiguity between facticity and transcendance when we try to define ourselves. "I am the cumulation of all my experiences, but later I will be also every decision I'll make in the future." Most of the time, people will evade this duality by falling on one end of the spectrum. Someone who only sees his facticity might say: "I'm a democrat and always will be!" Another example is the engineer that doesn't see that he can change job in the middle of his career because "he's an engineer". On the other side of the spectrum, someone who indulges too much in transcendance will dream of so many potential routes and things that he or she might become, without understanding the reality of the present. This person might be stuck in non stop dreaming, without doing anything, or might try things and fail because it's not made for him or her. All in all, Sartre supports that we should embrace this duality, and try to stay in the middle.