Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions

Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions
The French edition
Author	Jean-Paul Sartre
Original title	Esquisse d'une théorie des émotions
Country	France
Language	French
Subject	Philosophy
Published	1939
Media type	Print

Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions (French: Esquisse d'une théorie des émotions) is a 1939 book by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Summary

Sartre analyses prior ideas, including psychoanalytic theories before presenting his own phenomenological analysis.

Editions

The Emotions: Outline of a Theory, Bernard Frechtman, tr. The Philosophical Library, 1948

External links

Summary on The Internet Encyclopedia on Philosophy.
Excerpt on Sartre.org.

Works of Jean-Paul Sartre

Novels and short stories	Nausea (1938) The Wall (1939) The Roads to Freedom Series: The Age of Reason (1945); The Reprieve (1945); Troubled Sleep (1949) In The Mesh (1948) Intimacy (1949) Hurricane over Cuba (1961)

Plays and screenplays	Bariona (1940) The Flies (1943) No Exit (1944) Morts sans sépulture (1945) The Respectful Prostitute (1946) The Chips Are Down (1947) Dirty Hands (1948) The Devil and the Good Lord (1951) Kean (1953) Nekrassov (1955) The Condemned of Altona (1959) The Trojan Woman (1965) The Freud Scenario (1984)

Philosophical essays	"Imagination: A Psychological Critique" (1936) "The Transcendence of the Ego" (1936) "Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions" (1939) "The Imaginary" (1940) Being and Nothingness (1943) Existentialism and Humanism (1946) "Search for a Method" (1957) "Critique of Dialectical Reason" (1960, 1985) "Notebooks for an Ethics" (1983) "Truth and Existence" (1989)

Critical essays	"Anti-Semite and Jew" (1946) "Situations I - X (1947–1976) "Black Orpheus" (1948) "Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr" (1952) "The Henri Martin Affair" (1953) "The Family Idiot" (1971–2)

Autobiographical	Sartre By Himself (1959) The Words (1964) Witness to My Life & Quiet Moments in a War (1983) War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phony War (1984)

Related topics	Authenticity Bad faith (mauvaise foi) Existence precedes essence

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