Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis feat. Mary L. Edwards
Emancipations Podcast
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The Philosophical Conundrum of Sartre's Existential Psychoanalysis
Sartre rejects the unconscious entirely which which we do yeah right and you make the point that it's actually his turn to Marxism. That he develops a critique of dialectical reason where he develops um also his relationship to lacon, which pushes him towards psychoanalysis. He first introduces his existential psychoanalysis as part of his solution to what in philosophy is called the problem of other minds. We can't know that there are other consciousnesses so we have no way of knowing that other people we see around us have experience like we do or maybe they're robots who put on a really convincing show of having an experience just like we do.
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