ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the role imagination plays in shaping intersubjective relations in the work of Jean-Paul Sartre. Discussing Sartre’s account of intersubjectivity in Being and Nothingness as well as his work on imagination and literary experience, it is shown how the imaginary plays a fundamental role in Sartre’s understanding of intersubjectivity, even though this role might not, at a first glance, so evidently appear to the reader of the relevant passages in Being and Nothingness. Most importantly, this role is not limited to my experience of the other; rather, it also extends to the function the other play in altering my own self-experience. Besides reframing the discourse on our experience of others, this also has relevant implications concerning sociality.
