Sartre's Existential Psychoanalysis : Knowing Others / Mary Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Mary, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980. Être et le néant--English.

Sartre, Jean-Paul.

Existential psychology.

Existentialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

Western philosophical orthodoxy places many aspects of other people's lives outside the scope of our knowledge. Demonstrating an alternative to this view, however, this book argues that Jean-Paul Sartre's application of his unique psychoanalytic method to Gustave Flaubert is the culmination of his project to show that it is possible to know everything there is to know about another person. It examines how Sartre aims to revolutionize our way of thinking about others by presenting his existential psychoanalysis as the means to knowledge of both ourselves and others. By so doing, it highlights how his determination to solve the longstanding philosophical conundrum about other minds drives him not only to incorporate insights from Descartes, Hegel, Husserl, Freud, Marx, and Beauvoir into his philosophy, but also to supplement and enhance his philosophy through the development and application of a new form of psychoanalysis. Sartre's Existential Psychoanalysis integrates, for the first time, Sartre's psychoanalysis into his overarching philosophical project. By offering a critical interrogation of the role his psychoanalytical studies played in the development of his existentialism, Mary Edwards uncovers the overlooked philosophical significance of his existential psychoanalysis and brings it into a new and productive dialogue with current research in the fields of philosophy, psychology, and psychotherapy.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Sartre's theory of the self

The transcendent ego

A sense of selfness

The constitution of the ego

The evolution of the Sartrean self

Anguish, shame and self-deception

Bad faith and self-formation

The possibility of self-knowledge

2 Knowledge of selves

The problem of other minds

Sartre's solution to the conceptual problem of other minds

Shame and loneliness

Philosophical therapy and knowledge of selves

Existentialism and psychoanalysis: The very idea

Consciousness and comprehension

Existential ontology as psychoanalytic metatheory

3 Situated selves: The development of Sartre's psychoanalysis

From discourse to dialectic

Dialectical materialism

Knowledge of dialectical objects

Sartre's search for a new objective method

Sartre's debt to Beauvoir

The spirals of self-formation

Knowledge of another self

4 The Family Idiot and the objectification of a self

Being

Flaubert's passive constitution

The paternal curse

Pessimism and religiosity without religion

Comprehension

Autism, femininity and autoeroticism

A spectacle for his sister

Conversion from idiot to actor

Magical behaviour and imaginary acts

Knowing

The objective spirit

Sex and death, eating and decay

Flaubert's choice of the imaginary

Flaubert's failure

5 Objectivity in Sartre's study of Flaubert

Why Flaubert?

Is Sartre's method objective enough?

Madame Bovary: The missing fourth volume

Style over substance

The unlikely heroism of Charles Bovary

'I am too small for myself'

Sadism and laughter

Emma's insincerity, Flaubert's truth

Sartre's blind spots and their implications

The positive counterpart to Flaubert's misanthropy

Reading 'like a man'

Implications.

6 Imagining the selves of others

Bodies and books: Analoga for the self

Structure, language and Sartre's 'return to Freud'

'Show me your metaphysics!'

Literature as experience incarnate

Imaginary lives

A true novel: Knowing through imagining?

7 The future of Sartrean existential psychoanalysis

Sartrean existentialism: A new metatheory

Sartrean existential psychoanalysis in practice

Existential principles for integrative psychotherapy

Existential e-therapy

Suggestions for further research

Notes

References

Index.

Other Format:

Print version: Edwards, Mary Sartre's Existential Psychoanalysis

ISBN:

9781350173491

1350173495

9781350173484

1350173487

9781350173507

1350173509

OCLC:

1289419043