‘Le Trouble’: Sex and fear in the existential therapy room, explored through a Sartrean lens
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https://doi.org/10.65828/h22kpe84Keywords:
Sartre, sex, fear, subjectivity, death, body, love, BeauvoirAbstract
This paper seeks to explore sex and fear in the therapy room through a Sartrean lens. It aims to engage with his ideas on love, desire and sexuality as a response to Heidegger's ontology, and to ask whether we can find a link between fear and our relationship to freedom.
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