Existential Psychoanalysis | Sartre | Being & Nothingness

[@daseinbellen]

Thank you!

[@g.albanez]

Great video mate! I like your line of thoughts and there's some good info there! Only thing is that we should be careful when using the term "psychoanalysis" as this often refers to another universe of psychology/philosophy, making the title a bit misunderstanding, at least for me. The cool thing is that in psychology, "existential psychoanalisys" could mean a dialogue between existential psychology (Sartre, Heidegger) and some psychoanalysis concepts (mainly Freud and Winnicott in this context), which is an awesome subject.

[@SingularityasSublimity]

thank you! and I agree but it is the word Sartre uses to describe what he is doing and I generally try to stick the language of the text, even when I disagree with its usage.

[@g.albanez]

@@SingularityasSublimity Cool! I didn't know about this, to be honest. I've always seen it around as existentialism. It's really useful philosophy for many things we face nowadays, isn't it?

[@SingularityasSublimity]

existentialism is what might be considered his general philosophy (though in this book he calls it phenomenological ontology). Existential psychoanalysis is his attempt at an application of that philosophy to connect concrete choices to their ontological grounding.

[@dethkon]

I do stuff so I can have stuff, ya know?

[@yazanasad7811]

Psychology critiques Sartre - desire to be (for itself defined by a lack which seeks to become to fill this, which allows for freedom). Fundamental project to be. Desire for god - being cause for itself. How does freedom exist if all desired by god? Ultimate aim is not fixed, continually discovered.

[@yazanasad7811]

Desire - to do - to be (in itself for itself)- to have(possession/appropriation) Skiing both to have and to be And same for art too Owning an object as grounded in to be (to try and integrate it into our being) Our being is revealed through object possession. And the object reveals quality of meaning to us (mode on which being is revealed to us). Mode of being as symbolic significance.

[@yazanasad7811]

Looool slime as symbol Condemned to seek meaning and completeness but futile because no absolute meaning. Only we give it and goal is important so dissatisfied striving only