The Freud Scenario

by Jean Paul Sarte and Jean-Paul Sartre

Quinton Hoare (Translator) and J B Pontalis (Secondary Author)

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In 1958, the US director John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a scenario for a film about Sigmund Freud. Huston wanted Sartre to concentrate on the conflict-ridden period of Freud’s life when he abandoned hypnosis and invented psychoanalysis. The Freud Scenario, discovered in Sartre’s papers after his death, is the result—a deft portrait of a man engaged in a personal and intellectual struggle that would prove a turning point in twentieth-century thought.

Sartre did not regard this script as a diversion from his larger intellectual project. Freud’s preoccupations with female hysteria and the father relationship touched on...Read more
  • ISBN10 0226735133
  • ISBN13 9780226735139
  • Publish Date 1 December 1985 (first published 1 November 1985)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Chicago Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 549
  • Language English