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Psychoanalysis and Existentialism

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The Limit of Psychoanalysis

Badou and Sartre don't have a properly unconscious notion of... No, exactly. I'm going unconscious. That's completely the limit. We've been talking about the limit of psychoanalysis in this equation but the more primary one is that like Foucault has this problem with Parisia. So you're still... in that sense, consciousness is caught much more and it's in the trap of heteronomy or conformity much more than the unconscious is. And so I think it's only by this unconscious act that undermines our self-interest that we really taste what I would call authentic freedom.

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