Sartre : His Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
Contents: Introduction. Selected bibliography. I. Sartre’s existentialist philosophy: 1. Existence or being? 2. Existence as being in world. 3. The revelation of existence: contingency, absurdity, anxiety. 4. First critical intermezzo. 5. How to overcome Nausea. 6. Existence and essence. 7. Being and nothingness. 8. Freedom and anxiety, choice and project. 9. Freedom and values: Sartre and Nietzsche. 10. Second critical intermezzo. 11. Literature and freedom. 12. Existentialism and resistance. 13. Our Being for Others and their Gaze. II. Sartre’s existentialist psychoanalysis: 14. Choice and complex. 15. How about Adler’s lifeplan? 16. Existentialism is a personalism. 17. The unconscious and bad faith. 18. How free is our project? 19. Sex and love in existentialist psychoanalysis. 20. The philosophy and psychology of death. 21. Man’s fundamental project: to become God. 22. The psychoanalysis of qualities and foods: viscosity and Nausea. 23. Existentialist psychoanalysis and ethics. 24. Existentialism and psychiatry. 25. Final critical consideration and conclusion.
This book, based on the exceptionally wide reading of a scholar equally at home in several modern European languages is the first to present the comparatively little known theories of existentialist psychoanalysis with the same thoroughness as the existentialist philosophy to which they are organically related.
In the first part of the book, the author critically examines all the basic concepts of Sartre’s philosophy, endeavouring to show to which extent these concepts are Sartre’s own original creations, formulated under the special conditions of the German occupation of France during World War II, and to what extent they are developments of earlier trends in Western thought extending from Parmenides and Plato to Nietzsche, Ibsen, and Sartre’s more immediate progenitors, Kierkegaard and Heidegger
In the second part Dr. Stern analyzes the new type of psychoanalysis that has grown out of Sartre’s philosophy of value and explains the relationship of existentialist psychoanalysis to the doctrines of Freud, Adler and others.
