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Sartre and Hume on Consciousness

I'm currently reading Sartre's Transcendence of the Ego, and as I understand it Sartre is essentially arguing that there is no universal, underlying ego that exists behind consciousness, no transcendental self, just concrete consciousness that's unified via intentionality and past experience.

This seems very familiar with what Hume says about personal identity, that our identity is (as I understand his ideas) just a stream of impressions. Is this comparison an apt one? What are the differences between Sartre's view and Hume's?
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While it's true Sartre argues that

>there is no universal, underlying ego that exists behind consciousness, no transcendental self

it does not follow for him that the self is

>just a stream of impressions.

This is because, for Sartre, the self, while not something presupposed by the structure of experience, is still a genuine object of experience that shows up when consciousness reflects on itself. Once this reflective process occurs, consciousness begins to treat each phenomenal event as part of an intended unity to which they are now perceived as belonging; this, for Sartre, is a perfectly valid process, and the self, though not presupposed by the structure of experience, is nevertheless a real object of experience. This is why the ego is *transcendent:* like any other object of experience, it is an intentional unity constituted out of a manifold of experiential snapshots, though not completely present in any individually.