The Freudian unconscious cannot explain bad faith because it fragments psychic unity.

Evidence

Aside from its inferiority in principle, the explanation by magic does not avoid the coexistence—on the level of the unconscious, on that of the censor, and on that of consciousness—of two contradictory, complementary structures which reciprocally imply and destroy each other. Proponents of the theory have hypostasized and “reified” bad faith; they have not escaped it. … Thus on the one hand the explanation by means of the unconscious, due to the fact that it breaks the psychic unity, can not account for the facts which at first sight it appeared to explain. And on the other hand, there exists an infinity of types of behavior in bad faith which explicitly reject this kind of explanation because their essence implies that they can appear only in the translucency of consciousness. We find that the problem which we had attempted to resolve is still untouched. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 289

Categorization

• XREF: This is the systematic backdrop linking to Beauvoir and to the later concept that bad faith requires the translucency of consciousness. — connects to: The Freudian unconscious reintroduces a deceiver-deceived duality rather than explaining bad faith — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 282; The psychoanalytic censor must be conscious of itself, hence in bad faith — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 286; Bad faith collapses the deceiver and deceived into one consciousness — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 280 (+3 more)
• DEFINE: Explains why the Freudian unconscious model fails for bad faith: it breaks psychic unity and cannot account for behavior requiring consciousness.

Broader Connections

• The Freudian unconscious reintroduces a deceiver-deceived duality rather than explaining bad faith #corroborates (0.95) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 282
• Bad faith collapses the deceiver and deceived into one consciousness #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 280
• The psychoanalytic censor must be conscious of itself, hence in bad faith #complicates (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 286
• Sartre reinterpreted Freudian primal scenes as exercises of freedom #responds-to (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 690
• Psychoanalysis holds that a direct unmediated real is an impossibility #complicates (0.70) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 97
• Bad faith requires a conscious effort that simultaneously recognizes and denies an experience. #complicates (0.70) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 289