Sartre's Existential Psychoanalysis : Knowing Others /: Knowing Others. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mary Edwards.
• Authors: Edwards, Mary
• 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
• Publisher Details: London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: 142.78; Existential psychology; Existentialism; Psychologie existentielle; Existentialisme; existentialism; Existential psychology; Existentialism; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350173507; 1350173509; 9781350173484; 1350173487
• Related ISBNs: 9781350173477
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