Full Description
An approachable abridgment of Sartre's important analysis of Flaubert.
From 1981 to 1994, the University of Chicago Press published a five-volume translation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, a sprawling masterwork by one of the greatest intellects of the twentieth century. This new volume delivers a compact abridgment of the original by renowned Sartre scholar, Joseph Catalano.
Sartre claimed that his existential approach to psychoanalysis required a new Freud, and in his study of Gustave Flaubert, Sartre becomes that Freud. The work summarizes Sartre's overarching aim to reveal that human life is a meaningful adventure of freedom. In discussing Flaubert's work, particularly his classic novel Madame Bovary, Sartre unleashes a fierce critique of modernity as nihilistic and demeaning of human dignity.
Contents
Editor's Introduction
Chapter One: Problem: A Family Idiot Who Became a Genius
Chapter Two: Quidquid volueris
Chapter Three: Gustave at Fifteen
Chapter Four: A Rediscovered Childhood
Chapter Five: To Act or To Write
Chapter Six: Being Seen
Chapter Seven: Ambivalent
Chapter Eight: Birth of the Garçon
Chapter Nine: A Review
Chapter Ten: The Last Spiral: The Event
Chapter Eleven: Hysterical Commitment: Neurosis as Response
Chapter Twelve: Approaching Conversion
Chapter Thirteen: Conversion
Chapter Fourteen: The (Second) Problem
Chapter Fifteen: (The Problem Concluded): The Objective Spirit
Chapter Sixteen: Neurosis: Personal and Objective
Chapter Seventeen: Objective Neurosis and Madame Bovary
Editor's Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
