Existential psychoanalysis rejects the unconscious and makes psychic acts coextensive with consciousness

Evidence

Both our psychoanalyses refuse to admit that the subject is in a privileged position to proceed in these inquiries concerning himself. They equally insist on a strictly objective method, using as documentary evidence the data of reflection as well as the testimony of others. Of course the subject can undertake a psychoanalytic investigation of himself. But in this case he must renounce at the outset all benefit stemming from his peculiar position and must question himself exactly as if he were someone else. Empirical psychoanalysis in fact is based on the hypothesis of the existence of an unconscious psyche, which on principle escapes the intuition of the subject. Existential psychoanalysis rejects the hypothesis of the unconscious; it makes the psychic act coextensive with consciousness. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1340

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines existential psychoanalysis against empirical/Freudian psychoanalysis by its rejection of the unconscious hypothesis.
• XREF: Directly sets up Sartrean self-knowledge limits that Beauvoir inherits in The Ethics of Ambiguity. — connects to: The cerebral unconscious differs fundamentally from the Freudian ego or agency — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 1027; Freud held psychic life autonomous from cerebral causes — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 2055; Sartre’s free transparent consciousness leads him to reject the unconscious and all psychological determinism — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 79 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Sartre proposed an existentialist psychoanalysis rejecting Freud’s layered unconscious #corroborates (0.95) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 710
• Existential psychoanalysis decodes behavior to reveal each person’s fundamental choice of being. #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1346
• Freud decentered identity by revealing an unconscious inaccessible to introspection #contradicts (0.80)
• Existentialism sought lived experience rather than explaining it away through abstract systems #expands (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1025