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This solution compares and contrasts Sigmund Freud and Jean Satre. Supplemented with an article on Satre.

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1. Compare and contrast Freud and Satre (Sartre?) view also critically analyze these view pls
Freud was a medical doctor and a psychiatrist, so he contributes human behavior to biological impulses and drives. In contrast, Sartre was a philosopher and pragmatist, who contributes human behavior to existential reasons e.g., intentional choice. This is in sharp contrast to Freud, who argued that most of behaviors motivations were unconscious and out of our control. On the other hand, Sartre argues against Freud and that all behavior and emotions were a product of internationality and focused on freedom and responsibility. Freud's school of thought was referred to psychoanalysis, whereas Sartre's was existentialism (later called humanism).
In contrast to Freud's 'hidden" motivations, the basis of Sartrean freedom is ontological: we are free because we are not a self (an in-itself) but a presence-to-self (the transcendence or "nihilation" of our self). This implies that we are "other" to our selves, that whatever we are or whatever others may ascribe to us, we are "in the manner of not being it," that is, in the manner of being able to assume a perspective in its regard. This inner distance reflects not only the non-self-identity of the for-itself and the ecstatic temporality that it generates but forms the site of what Sartre calls "freedom as the definition of man." To that freedom corresponds a coextensive responsibility. We are responsible for our "world" as the horizon of meaning in which we operate and thus for everything in it insofar as their meaning and value are assigned by virtue of our life-orienting fundamental "choice." At this point, according to Sartre's theory, the ontological and the psychological overlap while remaining distinct as ...

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