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Existential psychoanalysis
pp. 53-56
Abstract
Sartre defines existential psychoanalysis as a "special phenomenological method,"1 a "method designed to bring to light, under a rigorously objective form, the subjective choice by which each person makes himself a person, that is, makes himself announce to himself what he is."2 The existential psychoanalyst rejects the Freudian psychoanalysis in so far as the latter describes certain general "states' (complexes, attitudes, etc.) rather than individually determined projects and choices. The goal of existential psychoanalysis is to reveal the symbolization and rapports contained in the projects of the pour-soi and to find "through these empirical and concrete projects the original manner which each one has of choosing his being." 3
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Natanson Maurice (1973) A critique of Jean-Paul Sartre's ontology. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 53-56
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-2410-5_5
Full citation:
Natanson Maurice (1973) Existential psychoanalysis, In: A critique of Jean-Paul Sartre's ontology, Dordrecht, Springer, 53–56.