{"product_id":"the-freud-scenario-isbn-9781844677726","title":"The Freud Scenario","description":"In 1958, the US director John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a scenario for a film about Sigmund Freud. Huston wanted Sartre to concentrate on the conflict-ridden period of Freud’s life when he abandoned hypnosis and invented psychoanalysis. \u003ci\u003eThe Freud Scenario\u003c\/i\u003e, discovered in Sartre’s papers after his death, is the result—a deft portrait of a man engaged in a personal and intellectual struggle that would prove a turning point in twentieth-century thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSartre did not regard this script as a diversion from his larger intellectual project. Freud’s preoccupations with female hysteria and the father relationship touched on major themes in his own work, and \u003ci\u003eLoser Wins\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Family Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWords\u003c\/i\u003e, some of Sartre’s most celebrated publications, are all in some way derived from his work for Huston.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten for a Hollywood audience, \u003ci\u003eThe Freud Scenario\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that, in addition to a towering intellect, Sartre enjoyed a genuine popular touch. Already widely acclaimed in France, \u003ci\u003eThe Freud Scenario\u003c\/i\u003e stands as a valuable testament to two of the most influential minds in modern history.“From the very first scenes we are reminded that Sartre is a playwright. Exposition, dialogue, the meticulous care with which he fleshes out his characters—we are overwhelmed by the author’s mastery.”—\u003ci\u003eLe Nouvel Observateur\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Freud’s therapeutic method has never been dramatized so theatrically or so intelligently as here by Sartre.”—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In the best Sartrean vein.”—\u003ci\u003eFigaro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A document of tremendous importance.”—\u003ci\u003eNew French Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean-Paul Sartre\u003c\/b\u003e was a prolific philosopher, novelist, public intellectual, biographer, playwright and founder of the journal \u003ci\u003eLes Temps Modernes\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in Paris in 1905 and died in 1980, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964—and turned it down. His books include \u003ci\u003eNausea, Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Flies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNo Exit, Sartre’s War Diaries,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCritique of Dialectical Reason\u003c\/i\u003e, and the monumental treatise \u003ci\u003eBeing and Nothingness\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuintin Hoare\u003c\/b\u003e is the director of the Bosnian Institute and has translated numerous works by Sartre, Antonio Gramsci, and other French authors. He lives in the United Kingdom.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301146546405,"sku":"NP9781844677726","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844677726.jpg?v=1767739432","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-freud-scenario-isbn-9781844677726","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}