ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to bring Sartre into dialogue with Anglo-American philosophers of mind on the topic of pain. There is a rough tripartite distinction to be made between acute, long-lasting, and chronic pain, and the Anglo-American focus is almost exclusively on the first, whereas Sartre's focus is largely on the second. The first part of pain sets out some of the essentials of the philosophical framework, then explores what Sartre said about long-lasting pain, and finally considers some issues that might arise for him about the other types of pain. The second part does something similar for Anglo-American accounts of pain, though beginning with acute pain. The first ekstasis is the experience of the subject unreflectively engaged in the world, the second ekstasis involves reflection on the first, the third focuses on how that experience alters by the presence of the other. Anglo-American philosophy of mind tends to presuppose naturalism, phenomenologists set themselves against naturalism from the beginning.
