The Existential Unconscious: Sartre and the Dialectic of Freedom
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https://doi.org/10.65828/qv252020Keywords:
Sartre, existentialism, unconscious, psychoanalysis, self, subjectivity, dialectic, 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.
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