Mary L. Edwards is Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University, UK.
This book is of great importance to both Sartre Studies and the
wider question of how we can know and understand others. It shows,
in an utterly compelling and innovative way, how Sartre’s
engagement with psychoanalysis is interwoven with his philosophical
work. The insights of the earlier discussions on existential
psychoanalysis are interwoven with the discussion of dialectics in
the Critique of Dialectical Reason and shown to be exemplified in
the neglected late work on Flaubert, L’idiot de la famille.
Consequently, the intersecting discussions throughout Sartre’s
oeuvre on the possibility of understanding others, the relation
between the subjective and the objective, the role of empathy, and
the relation between the real and the imaginary, are made explicit.
Focusing on the psychoanalytic thread in Sartre’s work, it is
essential reading for those interested in Sartre, but also more
widely for those engaged with the question of our relation to
others.
*Kathleen Lennon, Professor Emerita of Philosophy, University of
Hull, UK*
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