Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis feat. Mary L. Edwards
Emancipations Podcast
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The Problem of the Minds
The term self has a very specific if not idiosyncratic meaning for sartre so rather than a self being as we might traditionally or and then as sort of something that's inside us. We mistakenly think that self is inside us sartre but actually the self is the object we make of ourselves and continue to make of ourselves in the world. The idea that we can be with another person he thinks that's completely false like the nature of our experiences such that we are isolated freedoms so so ontologically we're alone and there's nothing we can do to change that however there’s this kind of epistemic consolation once we reconcile ourselves with that kind ofOntology what we
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