The Freudian unconscious reintroduces a deceiver-deceived duality rather than explaining bad faith

Evidence

To escape from these difficulties people gladly have recourse to the unconscious. In the psychoanalytical interpretation, for example, they use the hypothesis of a censor, conceived as a line of demarcation with customs, passport division, currency control, etc., to reestablish the duality of the deceiver and the deceived. Here instinct or, if you prefer, original drives and complexes of drives constituted by our individual history, make up reality. It is neither true nor false since it does not exist for itself. It simply is, exactly like this table, which is neither true nor false in itself but simply real. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 282

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sartre’s core critique: psychoanalytic ‘censor’ reestablishes the very duality between deceiver and deceived that bad faith supposedly dissolves.
• XREF: Directly parallels Beauvoir’s critique of Freudian determinism as a dodge of freedom — the central backdrop this reader is building toward. — connects to: Bad faith collapses the deceiver and deceived into one consciousness — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 280; Psychoanalysis explains self-deception as a lie without a liar — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 283; The Freudian unconscious cannot explain bad faith because it fragments psychic unity. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 289 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Sincerity can be an active ingredient of self-deception rather than its opposite #complicates (0.80) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1405
• Sartre reinterpreted Freudian primal scenes as exercises of freedom #responds-to (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 690
• The Freudian unconscious is a historical product of disciplinary society, not a timeless formation. #qualifies (0.75) — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 91
• The Freudian unconscious may be a historically contingent artifact, not a timeless structure #qualifies (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 406