The subject as symptom in Nausea
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2005
Authors
Poiana, P.
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Rolls, A.
Rechniewski, E.
Rechniewski, E.
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Book chapter
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Sartre's Nausea: Text, Context, Intertext, 2005 / Rolls, A., Rechniewski, E. (ed./s), vol.273, pp.77-90
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Abstract
While the existential meaning of nausea, a condition that reveals an inauthentic relationship with the world, has been elucidated by Sartre and other commentators, more needs to be said about how it functions in relation to the unconscious. This chapter will consider, from a Freudian and Lacanian perspective, how the subject in Sartre's novel is constituted as symptom. It will examine the narrative in order to locate the areas of resistance, compromise and substitution that prepare the scene for the return of a different subject to the voluntarist one envisaged by Sartre. In this case, the subject as symptom is modeled on the figure of the hysteric who, in letting the body speak its desire, provides a basis for establishing a different kind of relationship with the world.