The Existential Unconscious: Sartre and the Dialectic of Freedom

Abstract

In conceptualising and arguing for the ‘existential unconscious’ in the works of Sartre, this article contends that all empirical acts of the self relate to the self’s being-in-the-world as an original and a-volitional project of being. The inclusion of the unconscious makes for a dialectical approach to freedom as authenticity.