Abstract

SOUZA, Rodolfo Rodrigues de. A Path with Sartre: Appropriations of his Methods for a Phenomenological-Existential Clinic. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.spe, pp. 1293-1309. ISSN 1808-4281.  http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/epp.2020.56662.

The thinking of the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre is crossed by the constitution of different methodological proposals. In the late 1930s, he wrote about a regressive method when studying the relationship between imagination and consciousness. In Being and Nothingness, from 1943, he presents the Existential Psychoanalysis, sometimes taken in the text as a method in itself and other times as a proposal that uses a method, called comparative. In 1957, with Search for a Method, he presented the progressive-regressive method, in greater contact with Marxism and History. This article seeks to present such a methodological path, attempting dialogues with the field of phenomenological-existential psychotherapy. It is argued that all these different proposals form a totality of views that gives a new complexity to the possibilities of understanding the client in the clinical horizon. The study of the progressive-regressive method, in addition to Existential Psychoanalysis, whose relations with the clinical field seem more evident, allows the constitution of a practice that does not fall into an interpretative or explanatory practice.

Keywords : existential phenomenology; existential psychoanalysis; progressive-regressive method; Jean-Paul Sartre.

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