Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis feat. Mary L. Edwards
Emancipations Podcast
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The Importance of Bad Faith in Waiting
In Sartre we're being that is for itself or consciousness and consciousness in in time so essentially temporal being. To go back to the waiter when he imagines that he is a waiter he is concealing his lack from himself which if he stopped to think about it might might distract him from the work he's got to do as as a waiter. In his head he's this form of bad faith isn't enabling him to bracket any worries he might have any existential concerns but there are different kinds of bad faith.
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