A noção de corpo em Jean-Paul Sartre

Abstract

Throughout his works of the 1930s and 1940s, Jean-Paul Sartre elaborates a notion of body. The essays of phenomenological psychology — especially, Esquisse d'une théorie des émotions (Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions) (1939) and its conception of a dual corporeal character —, such as the literary work — particularly, the novel La nausée (Nausea) (1938) and its emphasis on the theme of contingency —, meet with the ontological and dialectical approach to corporeality in L'être et le néant (Being and Nothingness) (1943). Constructing a "notion", however, does not only imply complementarity between the texts, but also interpretative ruptures; at the same time, it points to critical references, as phenomenology. The body, in Sartre, is of fundamental importance to the understanding of his philosophy and to the enrichment of contemporary discussions.