Existential Psychoanalysis Author:Jean-Paul Sartre Copyright 1953. First Henry Regnery edition 1962. Introduction by Rollo May. — In "Existential Psychoanalysis", Sartre criticizes modern psychology in general, and Freud's determinism in particular. His often brilliant analysis of these areas and his proposals for their correction indicate in what direction an existential psychoanalysis might be ... more »developed. Sartre does all this in the basis of his existential understanding of man, and his unshakeable conviction that the human being simply cannot be understood at all if we see in him only what our study of subhuman forms of life permits us to see, or if we reduce him to naturalistic or mechanical determinism, or in any other way take away from the man we try to study his ultimate freedom and individual responsibility. Sartre repeats here what he so forcefully asserted through Orestes, the chief character in "The Flies", who shouted out against a manipulating and dilettante Zeus, "I am my freedom."« less