Sartre's refutation of Freudian theory in "The Transcendence of the Ego"
How does Sartre’s notion of the Ego, as present in the two faces of the ‘I’ and the ‘Me’ (with respect to the three orders of consciousness, as well as unreflected and reflected consciousness) refute Freud’s ‘primitive’ ideas of consciousness?
I’m not familiar with Freud’s corpora, so I’m not entirely sure how Sartre’s theory of the Ego compares. Please elucidate for me! Thanks.
Tagged: consciousness, ego, Frued, Ontology, Sartre
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Sartre has no common thread with Freud. In Freud it is a technical description:The Superego contains Parental Demands the Sub-conscious is of course full with dangerous desires and the Ego is the Navigator…. Freud is a Schopenhauerian thinker (that means solipsit:that all what we seeis colored by “only myself” as a projection of feelings. Sartre,on the contrary uses Hegelian concepts, and there the Ego -the moi -is in fact a Void, a Nothing taht has to be filled with meaning – and it is incontrast to the Things en-Soi (in itself) that is the FActicité, the Things. So,as you see,there is no point in comparing the two,they are not in dialogue. (Except in Lacan, but I confess I do not understand a word from him.)
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