So, as a someone with degrees in Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology I find it highly offensive how Sartre's "Being and Nothingness" has been cast aside by modern therapists. I find this offensive mostly as a philosopher but also as a theologian and as a counselor.
To sum this up very quickly, in "Being and Nothingness" Sartre asserts that we have complete freedom over our psychological ailments by means of being "condemned to be free." He reasons that we have a choice to 'feel' the way we feel and act the way we act, so with this total freedom you can simply choose greater mental health. In our modern day, I think the world of counseling has monetized mental health to such an extreme that this basic and simple truth of absolute and total "freedom" is intentionally hidden by the counseling community to justify their worthless jobs and boost profits!!!
Thought?
So basically you say to the depressed: you are free to feel not depressed?
@CountDorio said in #1:
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> Thought?
No. How did you hear of Sarte? How much of Being and Nothingness did you actually read?
@tpr said in #2:
> So basically you say to the depressed: you are free to feel not depressed?
Mental Health Sensitivity/Awareness Day is making a differrence. Arnold just came from the seminar and runs into sad Sean Snuffluffugus.
"...You don't need an MD. I can tell what's wrong with you. You're depressed. Stop being a drag, you know, and snap out of it..life's too short..."
Is not this the same as rational emotive behavior therapy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_emotive_behavior_therapy
If you are depressed,you have to solve or fix or face whatever is making you depressed.Once its clear on whats causing you depression.You have to change or fix that thing.Sometimes its too hard to do it on your own.Its smart to get help and support
Sartre at the same time stressed the freedom and denied it.
In 'Les Mouches' Oreste kills his mother because he felt free to do that as she had killed his father. He was acquitted in a divine trial.
In 'Le Mur' he refused to tell the hiding place of his comrade and to gain time falsely pointed his interrogators to the cemetery. His comrade, knowing he had been arrested and might reveal his hiding place under duress, changed his hiding place to... the cemetery and was captured there. So he was not free after all.
In the field of Depression, these kinds of threads are what is known as "carriers."
@MrPushwood said in #8:
> In the field of Depression, these kinds of threads are what is known as "carriers."
I agree with Pushy
@tpr
I guess likely first heard of Sartre in a philosophy 101 class. Then I took a 400 level class dedicated to Sartre as one of the classes for my BA then for my MA in Philosophy I took a 600 level class dedicated to just Sartre again....and part of my dissertation was on the comparison between Heidegger and Sartre.
Probably the only work that we can read and understand Sartre's understanding of freedom is "Being and Nothingness." And it's rather clear that he is responding to Heidegger's "Being and Time" over the issue of 'freedom.' The 'nothingness' of "Being and Nothingness" represents the lack of God or anything else that negates your freedom. Satre is the extremist free will philosopher.