SR - existential psychoanalysis

Question 1

original choice

Answer 1

aka fundamental attitude, is a non-thetic choice….we make it in relation to our upbringing/family/environ

our response to existence itself

Question 2

SR’s belief about the nature of humans

Answer 2

the human being cannot be REDUCED to libido or will to power

wants to start from the concrete individual being of the human being

there is NOT a human nature…we are free, make our own choices to become self

everyone’s project is deeply individual

Question 3

empirical psychoanalysis

Answer 3

reduces the indiid to a complex of drives and desires
- controlled by unconc impulses i.e. libido

SR doesn’t deny drives, but says we shouldn’t reduce ppl to them

this analysis seeks to understand the complex

Question 4

existential psychoanalysis

Answer 4

the individual is defined in terms of their FUNDAMENTAL PROJECT
- interested in the concrete individuality of a person’s fund proj

seeks to understand the original choice

Question 5

smth irreducible

Answer 5

our heredity, education, and environ are all reducible…don’t adequately explain a person’s behav or personality

SR looking for smth genuinely irreducible, whose irreducibility is evident for us
- ID what’s individual abt the individ
- the personality of the individ can be understood thru the FUNDAMENTAL PROJ/og choice…the choice/attitude that unifies our project and projected self

Question 6

why do we feel anguish

Answer 6

anguish/anx bcs the self is a choice….must continuously make this

Question 7

what is the role of the existential psychoanalyst

Answer 7

to reveal to ourselves our original choice of being

every desire and relationship we have represents a way of being in the world
- are expressions of our fundamental project

Question 8

does our facticity matter

Answer 8

our environ does impact us, but doesn’t solely define us

we must take responsibility for ourselves and our freedom, even if our facticity influences who we become

bad faith to deny ourselves and our choices

Question 9

desire

Answer 9

represents a LACK OF BEING
- this distinguishes being-for-itself from being-in-itself

BFI is complete in-itself and has no desire…objects
BII is INCOMPLETE, desires completion…being of subjects

we want to have in-itself’s consciousness, but the completeness of for-itself structures
- don’t feel anguish when complete, but don’t want to be objects
- want completion with consciousness