absent self, 40
absolute self (pure ego), 37, 40
The Age of Reason, 10
Algeria, French war in, 15
alienation, 128
antithesis, 125
Aristotle, 103
Aron, Raymond, 8
arrogance, 95
bad faith, 54, 67,78-86, 87-88, 95, 98, 99, 113, 116, 118
Being and Nothingness, 10, 29, 54-59, 84, 100, 110, 112-14, 129, 132
being-an-object, 95
being-for-itself, 48, 61, 86, 94, 95, 100, 102-3
being-in-itself, 48, 49, 74, 86, 94, 100, 102-3
being-in-itself-for-itself, 103, 111
being-in-the-midst-of-the-world, 82
Buber, Martin, 20
Carroll, Lewis, 60
Castro, Fidel, 15
categorical imperative, 117, 120
chance, 136
Chaplin, Charlie, 12
choice, 25, 62-63, 73, 99-101, 106, 114-15
Communist Party. See French Communist Party
conflict, 96
consciousness, 31-41, 44, 89, 110
contingency, 51
The Critique of Dialectical Reason, 14, 121, 124, 129, 131, 132, 138, 142
Cuban Revolution, 15
death, as a choice, 63, 100, 101
de Gaulle, Charles, 15
Descartes, René, 30-32, 37, 39, 44, 89, 110, 132
discontinuities, 59
Engels, Friedrich, 137
essence, vs. existence, 21-25, 27-28
existentialism, 3, 12-13, 14, 18-28, 101, 123-24
“Existentialism and Humanism”, 114
fear, 95
Fear and Trembling, 77
figure/ground, 57
The Flies, 11
freedom, 25, 28, 41-44, 69, 73, 75-76, 83, 94, 96, 99, 103, 106, 111, 117-18, 123, 128, 136
French Communist Party, 13, 14, 15, 121, 122
Freud, Sigmund, 32, 61, 102, 105, 107, 109
fused group, 134
future. See time
Girondins, 137
God, 27-28, 53-54, 75, 77, 95, 103
groups, 134
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 125, 127, 128, 137
Helmholtz, Herman von, 32
Husserl, Edmund, 9, 30, 34-37, 39, 44
inauthenticity, 113
incarnation, 130
instincts, 26
Jacobins, 137
Janet, Pierre-Marie, 41
Jaspers, Karl, 20
Kafka, Franz, 20
Kierkegaard, S⊘ren, 10, 19, 20, 27-28, 42-43, 77
Les Temps Modernes, 12
libido, 102
Marcel, Gabriel, 19
Marxism, 3, 13, 14, 121-24, 140
masochism, 95
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 13
Napoleon, 141
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 19, 20, 24, 107
oppression, 140
past. See time
“phenomenological suspension” (bracketing), 35-36
Picasso, Pablo, 12
post-structuralism, 17
present. See time
pride, 95
“Principle of Sufficient Reason” (Leibniz), 51
proto-existentialists, 19
“psychasthenic ailment,” 41
psychoanalysis:
Freudian, 78
The Psychology of the Imagination, 9
pure ego (absolute self), 37, 40
radical conversion, 106-107, 111
Reagan, Ronald, 99
reflected consciousness, 38-39
religion, 95
role-playing, 83
Russell, Bertrand, 15
Russian Revolution, 137, 139-42
sadism, 97
Sartre, Jean-Paul:
drug experiences, 9
education, 6
health, 16
Nobel Prize for Literature, 15
physical appearance, 5
Satan, 75
Schweitzer, Albert, 4
Search for a Method, 124
series (collective), 133
“Socialism and Liberty” (resistance group), 11
space, 37
Stalinism, 14, 131, 138, 139-42
subgroups, 137
symbolism, 66
Les Temps Modernes, 12
theistic tradition (Western), 75-77
thesis, 125
Transcendence of the Ego, 9, 38-44
unconscious, 34, 40, 61, 78-79, 109, 110
underground newspapers, 11
unreflected consciousness, 38-39
universal law, 117
vanity, 95
vestige of a group, 135
Vietnam, 15
violence, 130
Watson, John, 32
