Excession

'Excession' is the process of exceeding, and, likewise, 'excessional' means 'excessive', but without the usual prejorative connotation. Excession is a key innovation in Formaterialism, since the Material Principle, in gerneral, and, for example, locomotility, in particular, are excessional, which facilitates a conceptualization of Experience that contrasts with the traditional teleological notion of behavior as fundamentally a response to a deficiency. Sartre seems to have a brief insight into Excession, which, in his terminology, could be defined as 'Being-de trop', but he eventually supplants it with Lack as the motor of existential processes, with significant consequences for his Ontology. For example, he characterizes Consciousness as a Lack because: it is Intentional, and, thus, has an object; the object is external to Consciousness, which means that a negation separates the two; since the object, as Being-in-itself, is a plenum, it cannot be the source of the negation; therefore, Consciousness is the source of that negation. But, to thus contain a Nothingness is possible only if, according to Sartre, Consciousness is Ontologically deficient, i. e. is a Lack. However, Excession also contains a negation, but one that is sublated. Thus, it can also follow from Sartre's Intentionality that Consciousness is a surplus of Being, in which case, for example, it is no longer intrinsically motivated by Value.