Sartre's Existential Psychoanalysis feat. Mary L. Edwards

We are joined by Mary L. Edwards to discuss her new book Sartre's Existential Psychoanalysis: Knowing Others. We discuss Sartre's concept of bad faith, the in-itself and the for-itself and the challenge that his philosophy poses to psychoanalysis. We also discuss Sartre's psychobiographies on Jean Genet and Gustave Flaubert and what these works have to offer to psychoanalytic practice and theory.

Link to Mary's book:

Mary Louise Edwards is a teacher in philosophy at Cardiff University, School of English, Communication and Philosophy. Mary researches and teaches existentialism, feminist philosophy, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of imagination.

[koalkb]

And this was a great conversation, btw. Look forward to reading Dr. Edward's book.

[alexjohnson]

Really enjoyed this! I'm reading B&N right now and this was a great exploration of the agreements and disagreements between Sartre and Freud.

[rhcpfan____heartjohn]

thank you so much for these videos! I really loved the part about Flaubert and gender!

[CyberDandy]

Thank you for putting this out there!!🎉

[koalkb]

I understand what Dr. Edwards was trying to explicate with the example of Genet's thief. However, Genet's thief is never situated in a "nuclear family." Because he is orphaned as an infant, I always read his elaboration of the thief as a transvaluation of values in the Nietzschean sense. 1:32:38