TY  - BOOK
AU  - Charmé,Stuart L.
TI  - Meaning and Myth in the Study of Lives: A Sartrean Perspective 
SN  - 9780812279085
AV  - B2430.S34 C524 1984
U1  - 194 19
PY  - 1984///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Existential psychology
KW  - Meaning (Philosophy)
KW  - Self
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. The Nature of Consciousness and the Story of the Self --; 2. The Nature of Consciousness and the Story of the Self --; 3. Dialectic and Totalization: New Theoretical Developments --; 4. Existential Psychoanalysis and “True Novels” --; 5. Two Early “True Novels” --; 6. Existential Psychoanalysis as Ideology and Myth --; 7. “What Can We Know About a Man?” --; 8. Identity, Narrative, and Myth --; Notes --; Selected Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This book explores major theoretical issues in the study of an individual life through its focus on Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre's quest for an "existential psychoanalysis" led him to develop what he called "true novels" in the landmark studies of Flaubert and others. In clarifying Sartre's philosophical ideas in relation to the analysis of the self, Stuart L. Charme examines the attraction/repulsion of Freudian concepts and explores parallels to Erikson's ego psychology. Certain "mythic" qualities in religious biography and autobiography are seen as central to Sartre, who presents lives--including his own--as normative models. The book concludes by making a provocative link between the modern preoccupation with self-analysis in biography and autobiography and a fundamental religious need that was once fulfilled by primitive myth
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