The transcendence of the ego

Book • 1957

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Mentioned as the text the group read for the episode, written in 1934 by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Mentioned as Sartre's early text where he posits that the self is a fiction produced by consciousness.

Mentioned by

Stephen Dyson

as Sartre's early text, where he posits that the self or I are fictions, retroactive impositions produced by consciousness.

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Stephen Siegel

as a starting point for understanding Sartre's ideas about the self as a fiction.

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