{"product_id":"the-freud-scenario","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.","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"paperback","offer_id":50192130670869,"sku":"kri1789931415399","price":34.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0878\/5349\/8645\/files\/the-freud-scenario_1.jpg?v=1789931420","url":"https:\/\/zenmatfitk.shop\/products\/the-freud-scenario","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}