ABSTRACT
Human action is necessary for a start to go back to the nature of the For-itself, and, in particular, to the question of what constitutes human action. Consciousness must always be consciousness of the world from the point of view of a potential agent, of someone who is prepared to act upon M. Jean-Paul Sartre's environment. Sartre’s insistence that the future, and only the future, holds the clue to the patient’s condition looks like a conscious paradox, a kind of doctrinaire hostility to Freud. Sartre has made his own contradictions, by attempting to deduce the correctness of his method of analysis from the truth of his most general metaphysical account of what there is in the world. Sartre did indeed make one half-hearted attempt to find a way by which many could be shown to have, and to be right to exploit, some altruistic interest in others.
