Freudian disguise mechanisms secretly require goal-directed consciousness they deny

Evidence

No mechanistic theory of condensation or of transference can explain these modifications by which the drive itself is affected, for the description of the process of disguise implies a veiled appeal to finality. And similarly how are we to account for the pleasure or the anguish which accompanies the symbolic and conscious satisfaction of the drive if consciousness does not include—beyond the censor—an obscure comprehension of the end to be attained as simultaneously desired and forbidden. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 288

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A dense charge: mechanistic explanation of repression must borrow teleology — the drive must know its own end to disguise it. This is Sartre’s most analytically serious objection and rewards slow re-reading.
• XREF: connects to: Psychoanalysis explains self-deception as a lie without a liar — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 283; Self-deception requires precise knowledge of the truth being concealed, not ignorance — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1397

Broader Connections

• Psychoanalysis explains self-deception as a lie without a liar #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 283
• Self-deception requires precise knowledge of the truth being concealed, not ignorance #qualifies (0.80) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1397