Preface
Abbreviations Used in Citing Sartre’s Works
1. Introduction
2. Sartre versus Freud: Two Approaches to Metapsychology
-The Nature of the Dispute
-Similarities and Differences between Freudian and Existential Psychoanalysis
-Freudian Metapsychology: Psychobiological and Neurophysiological Forces
-Sartrean Metapsychology: Consciousness as the Pursuit of Value
-The Implications for Psychotherapy
3. Sartre and the Post-Freudian Drive Theorists: A Crisis in Psychoanalytic Metatheory
-The Nature of the Crisis
-The Discovery of New Relational Needs by Post-Freudian Drive Theorists
-Sartre’s View of the Other as Subject and Object
-A Sartrean Perspective on Developmental Theory
-The Implications for Psychotherapy
4. Sarte and the Post-Freudian Relational Theorists: Toward a Psychoanalytic Theory of the Self
-What Is the Self?
-Relations with Others and the Creation of a “Self”: Three Post-Freudian Views
-Sartre’s Concept of the Self
-“Pure Reflection”: A Sartrean Approach to the Self in Psychotherapy
-The Implications for Psychotherapy
5. Sartre’s Later Philosophy and the Sociomaterial World: A New Dimension for Existential Psychoanalysis
-The Sartrean Dialectic and Existentialist Theraphy
-Praxis, Need/Desire, and Sartrean Developmental Theraphy
-The Practico-Inert: Serial Alterity and Negative Reciprocity as Issues for Existentialist Therapy
-The Regulatory Third Party, Fraternity-Terror, and the Family as Group Praxis
-Conclusion
6. A Challenge to Existential Psychoanalysis: Ego, Mirror, and Aggressivity in Sartre and Lacan
-Introduction
-Hegelian Themes in Sartre and Lacan
-Ego, Mirror, and Intersubjectivity in Sartre and Lacan
-The Sartrean Ego: Possibilities for Transformation
-Image, Reality, and “Normality” in Sartre and Lacan
-Conclusion
7. Sartre and Lacan on the Nature of Language: Existentialist versus Structuralist Metatheory
-The Structuralist Challenge to Existentialism
-Language and Desire: A Lacanian Revision of Freudian Metatheory
-A Sartrean Reply: Language as Practico-Inert
-Conclusion
8. Clinical Implications: Sartrean Revolutionary Praxis versus Lacanian Amor Fati
-Introduction
-Lacanian Analysis: Transformation or Armor Fati?
-A Sartrean Critique of Lacanian Analysis
-Conclusion
9. Conclusion: Toward a Sartrean Clinical Practice
-Sartrean Metatheory and the Practice of Psychotherapy
-A Sartrean Case History: Martha the “Marvelous Mirror”
-Some Directions for Future Inquiry
Notes
Bibliography
Index