The understanding of tranisent flux

Peter, I am inclined to comment that you have, although not entirely, misunderstood the concept of what I meant by my interpretation of why the woman in the cafe is acting in bad faith. I say that in positing a certain idea of what it would be to be sincere to 'herself', and in doing so establishing a static conception of self that renegades against the transient nature of her being, the woman is acting in bad faith. In contemplating such a hypothetical instance, it is unimportant what either the man or the woman expect will happen at the culmination of the meeting, and likewise it is unimportant as to whether their wants, desires and expectations will change over time (although this can be taken as highly likely). For instance, your example of the fact that the man thinks that they will end up in bed together because of inherent chauvinist characteristics is irrelevant. The act of bad faith on the woman's part is in its totality conditional of her understanding of herself as a particular 'type' of individual with a particular 'set' of character traits and inclinations. Sartre exemplifies this when he writes "She draws her companion up to the most lofty regions of sentimental speculation; she speaks of Life, of her life, she shows herself in her essential aspect-a personality, a consciousness" (1993, p.56). It is her showing of her essential self as a personality of particular categorization that is key here. As I have previously contended, the woman is projecting a static ideal of her self onto the transient flux of her being. This qualifies as bad faith because it "seeks to affirm... identity while preserving... differences" (Sartre, 1993, p.56). Furthermore, it affirms "facticity as being transcendence and transcendence as being facticity" (Sartre, 1993, p.56). In other words (and in line with my earlier identification of the key terms of Sartre's ontology), the woman posits all that she has been as intrinsic to the possibilities of everything she can be, and subsequently appropriates her possibilities as fundamentally conditional upon all that she has been.