JP Sartre's Nausea (Summary and Analysis)

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[@davaanyamotgonbold3589]

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[@Fiction_Beast]

I appreciate that!

[@davaanyamotgonbold3589]

@@Fiction_Beast yes. In one of his letters, after Camus death, he wrote about him "boy from Algiers who managed to write few books". He even called him crook numerous times but after his death. Dude did not have balls to call him that when he was alive. I think he showed classist, snobby attitude because of his superiority complex which developed early in his life because of his look. But the funny part is he was actually quite aware of all his negative traits. Anyway, always appreciate your work dude

[@mytube1246]

Great analysis. Thank you also for relating and contextualizing it with other works and other philosophers. You have covered all the major themes and messages but maybe left out one. The interpersonal relationships. Especially romantic relationships, I think Sartre tells us that there can never be the interminable, eternal love that we all hope for. The passages when he finally visits Anny made me feel like these two will never truly be together despite having a great affection between them. That section while exploring what "adventures" and "perfect moments" tell us how much of an importance we attribute to OUR expectations when it comes to a romantic relationship. That our personal journey, will always come in the way of having a combined journey with somebody else. That we are truly alone in the world. To exist in a relationship is to compromise, at large with yourself. It's a beautiful scenario realized with great nuance. The both of them are going through the same troubles, yet the two of them curtail their conversations so much because they have assigned meanings to themselves and the their partner. Both of them are trying so hard to break free from those meanings but when confronted with such a situation it's almost as it's their nature to close off doors and end conversations. Thats true with almost all of us. In trying to simply get by days, we seldom have true relationships. We use relationships like crutches to walk through one corridor of life to the other. Thats become our reality. At the core of things, we can never let someone be truly themselves, the presence of a partner, friend or a family member changes US. It alters our way of expression, forces us to fit into a character we have built with them and in effect it does the same to them. This give and take and the adorning of masks truly strips off what we can be. In solitude we have nothing but to worry about the angst we're fighting within. I felt that the entire novel was building towards this point. The repetitive mentions of Anny and what she had done TO him and WITH him, always seemed like a tokenization of his past. Of how perhaps his derailment began. In some sense, once he has met her, he seemed to have found a clarity. How he can go on with himself a little longer. Of course, the incident with the Autodidact pushes on the themes of social acceptance and personal behaviors in the public. Solidifying the point of the person will be himself on when he is nobody's presence and anything else is dangerous. From that, to latch on to the evergreen quality of art, seems to be an idea to think past his own existence to think of something that will last beyond him and evoke thoughts in people like him. The novel is a great piece on expectations and failure. I'm at a phase in life when all seems dry and I constantly feel like I'm punching below my weight. That I am anything but a body and that I am not capable of producing good things; be it memories or art or any sort of concrete work. I am affixed to my bed most times and fill my life with seemingly "joyous" things, which I no constitute no meaning to my being. They're all just a means to pass time. I finished this book over many sessions and could truly connect with Sartre on a number of things. Your analysis helped me derive more meaning out the book, or rather, helped me apply a different lens on to certain topics. Thanks again. Please continue the good work. You are leaving a part of yourself which will outlast you. :)

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[@Fiction_Beast]

You're kind

[@Sachie465]

Your previous video about Sartre was the first opportunity that I became interested in philosophers so I thank you now. So far my interest is confined within existentialists. Perhaps because their motifs are close to literature.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Yes existentialism and literature are close.

[@786DaveD]

Amazing analysis. Even though this is the first novel written by Sartre all his ideas of existentialism had already reached maturation by this time so although he went on to write many more books fiction as well as complex non-fictional narratives, once asked he claimed "Nausea" to be his favorite novel. And, your excellent structural breakdown of the story exemplifies - why? Keep them coming, Matt. Best, Aranya

[@ronlys6986]

Thanks!

[@igornastasijevic5030]

I am really glad you did a video on "Nausea" since I became interested in Sartre and thought it was easier to start with this than with "Being and nothingness". I found an old copy of a book (for less than 2 euros) and I found it very hard to read. It is like Camus' Stranger but even more monotonous. For all of the novel I had the impression like nothing is happening and if I didn't knew beforehand what was basic idea of the book, I wouldn't have had a slightest clue what was going on. Your analysis and selected quotes were good supplementation to understanding the piece a little bit better.

[@DarkAngelEU]

Man becomes bored with his normal life, so he becomes an artist. Nausea in a single sentence.

[@Nick-qf7vt]

If it makes you feel any better, even Sartre himself later disowned Being and Nothingness.

[@romakelkar9561]

I saw this video a while ago where he said our thoughts can travel faster than light which fascinated me, it sounds bizarre but if you think of it, when you are looking forward to visit a place, you can already imagine yourself there with mediums such as photos or even places you have never seen, such as mercury, I can make up an imagination of how mercury might look like, it's truly beautiful, this may be an absurdist take on things

[@cheri238]

First, Satre "Nausea" I love your channel.💖 Proust's, a beautiful snob," In Paradise Lost," one of my favorites also and Celine in "Journey Into the Night," a despair of the war. Sarte is angry with Proust for not mentioning the war and he has nuasea because he was alone and lived in isolation from himself, As he found himself after the experience of the chestnut tree his nausea lifted, he became able to be in the present, so he did not want to write in despair, as to give hope. Fascinating discoveries as gods were being replaced in thought underneath a chestnut tree, Dostoevskey, and the return to God, and Satre finds himself under the chestnut tree and tries to explain this to a couple of people in town what he found. Can one imagine? Satre was a Democrat and socialist and Maxists thought, Nietzsche, Uber man, Camus, blazing trails. The exploring of sense, taste, and smell inside or outside of objects. All of these writers, philosophers, were geniuses in their own right.

[@raystargazer7468]

This guy has a nice book collection..

[@aaliyahsakinaharifinputri55]

I'm doing my thesis based on this novel and i'm struggling so hard :( even my professor told me this novel is hard and i just realize it now when everything is too late and i couldnt change my topic.. but your video helped me a lot thank you!! Also if you dont mind me asking, do you think Antoine's anxiety can be discussed through Freud's anxiety theory?

[@atlas4802]

yes

[@Nick-qf7vt]

Not a fan of Sartre at all (and am totally opposite him on religion, political views, etc) but I love your videos. Plus, I love reading works by people I disagree with. I'm gonna grab the New Directions Publishong edition of this as i really like their editions of A Season In Hell and Journey to the End of the Night.

[@JimmyDThing]

I really like this channel for these videos. I struggle with Sartre. I just dislike the guy so it's hard for me to get into what he's saying. This helps a lot.

[@bioliv1]

I like Sartre because it's just to turn everything he says and thinks on the head, and then you find meaning in life.

[@env0x]

albert camus is like a more palatable sartre and americans tend to prefer him even though they're both french

[@markspano3468]

Sartre is a difficult man to admire. I, nonetheless, admire him. He didn’t understand Proust, and I forgive him that.

[@Fiction_Beast]

He was smart. Genuinely smart.

[@ISCARI0T]

@@Fiction_Beast what do you think about the p*do ideas of the modern, french philosophers?

[@ilqar887]

@@ISCARI0T i don’t think they preach harm or rape ..some people reach puberty 12 and accordıng to them then can experıence sexualıty …thats what I ve real ….but ıt ıs really ınterestıng to Me too ..why they supported

[@highmedic2351]

?

[@highmedic2351]

@@ISCARI0T?

[@BeesWaxMinder]

Ironically, it Sounds like the protagonist is well on his way to achieve nirvana!

[@nihilisticnirvana]

"the decomposition of God inside our psyche makes us feel sick" _HOLY SHIT DUDE_

[@Fiction_Beast]

Not sure if that’s a compliment or criticism. Appreciate the comment.

[@nihilisticnirvana]

@@Fiction_Beast i'm always violent in my appreciation,(above comment and subsequent reply being an example) i understand it's disconcerting, but it's who i am. cheers!

[@jhljhl6964]

If there is no Devine essence within, where did the idea come from?

[@mattkanter1729]

Neuronal activity and ( Related) the faculty of generalization

[@raystargazer7468]

SartRRRHE

[@bioliv1]

What, automatic generated subtitles? Why?

[@JimmyDThing]

You probably have Closed Captions on. The little CC at the bottom of the video. If you click it again they'll turn off.

[@bioliv1]

@@JimmyDThing No, before the subtitles were NOT auto generated. I HATE auto generated!

[@JimmyDThing]

@@bioliv1 What are you talking about? All KZbin videos get auto generated subtitles if you use the "CC" button. Are you sure that's not just on?

[@bioliv1]

@@JimmyDThing No, you can use real subtitles. See "Nietzsche’s Genius Philosophy - Thus Spoke Zarathustra" Here the subtitles are like on TV, and written down by the maker of the video! Auto generated subtitles are made by a KZbin computer, and not a human being.

[@bioliv1]

@@JimmyDThing Auto generated subtitles are worse than no subtitles, they just make me dizzy.

[@highmedic2351]

I love the UK accent.

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[@Krillinjustchillin]

Im having such a hard time staying invested in the story, i really wanna like it but i just simply cannot follow it. Maybe some time away?

[@davaanyamotgonbold3589]

Calling Proust snob while acting snobbish on Camus works. Man was a walking contradiction and character depth.

[@Fiction_Beast]

You mean Sartre

[@supDED]

That is called depression.

[@Fiction_Beast]

It’s a philosophical thought experiment.

[@stevenhrumph5565]

Depression lol.

[@161cjl]

i can see traces of depersonalization sometimes as well though

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[@plotinuswashere]

was sartre a socialist? last night I read his play "dirty hands", which was extremely anti-socialist (in an almost over-the-top way). historically, it was favored by right wingers and despised by leftists, and according to wikipedia, was not staged in a socialist state until 1968. " _When the film version was released in France in 1951 Communists threatened the cinemas showing it. In fact the play itself was not re-staged in France until 1976_ "

[@Fiction_Beast]

Politically he was a socialist and maoist but he was a philosopher so on a deeper philosophical level he had a more nuanced views.

[@plotinuswashere]

@@Fiction_Beast thanks for the response. That's interesting, makes me wonder why he'd write such an anti-socialist play. Unless it's a full on satire.

[@Nick-qf7vt]

​@@plotinuswashere it is very interesting to me that Sartre of all people wrote Dirty Hands. He's the last person I would have thought would write anything that could be even remotely construed as critical of socialism. While a lot of left-wing figures at the time came to disavow communism (or at the very least the Soviet union), Sartre was one of its staunchest defenders. That's one of the reasons for him and Camus splitting; Camus wasn't about to whitewash Soviet genocides or defend totalitarianism, whereas Sartre did. I suppose you could compare it to Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. Seeger renounced communism because he saw the horrors of Stalinism whereas Woody Guthrie went full on Stalin bootlicker.

[@subharajbhanja7811]

I request you to cover western philosophy in a comprehensive manner so that we can rely on your KZbin channel for all aspects of philosophy.

[@lfsiuvagacwoi]

Why don’t you do it

[@ThirdLens]

He already done that in his 2.5 hours of philosophy video.

[@ixmix]

So here we can justify the suicidal thoughts of a person , being fret and nauseated by life (or time)

[@Fiction_Beast]

Dude it’s a novel. A thought experiment by one of the most famous philosophers. Not everything is literal. Nausea is a nuanced novel.

[@kingfisher9553]

💀the decomposition of God in ourselves leads to nausea 🤮Overall, I'm more attracted to Proust's observation. 🌹

[@Fiction_Beast]

That part is my idea so let’s not blame Sartre. I also love Proust.

[@calvingrondahl1011]

If there is no God then the job is still open. AI should take over the world and then the universe. Humans… Are we worth it? Maybe not.

[@Fiction_Beast]

perhaps once the AI becomes too powerful, if there is a god, he/she will show up to say who's the boss. so far we have not seen any evidence on the outside, except on the inside by some people.