The Freud Scenario Scénario Freud. English Freud--the Secret Passion (motion Picture)

Presents both versions of the screenplay John Huston commissioned Sartre to write about Freud and discusses the background of the work 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. The Freud Scenario , 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. Sartre 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 Loser Wins , The Family Idiot and Words, some of Sartre's most celebrated publications, are all in some way derived from his work for Huston. Written for a Hollywood audience, The Freud Scenario demonstrates that, in addition to a towering intellect, Sartre enjoyed a genuine popular touch. Already widely acclaimed in France, The Freud Scenario stands as a valuable testament to two of the most influential minds in modern history In 1958 The Film Director, John Huston, Invited Jean-paul Sartre To Write A Screenplay About Freud's Discovery Of The Unconscious Determinants Of The Neuroses And Of The Psychoanalytic Method For Obtaining Access To Them. This Is Surprising, Since Sartre's Animosity Toward Psychoanalysis Was Well Known. Recently, However, Sartre Had Read The First Volume Of Ernest Jones's Biography Of Freud, Which Had Just Appeared In French Translation, And The Correspondence Between Freud And Fliess, Which Had Appeared In French Two Years Earlier. According To Pontalis, Sartre's Reaction To These Works Was Delight At Discovering That Freud Had Not Been The Ambitious, Armchair Theoretician And Doctrinaire Philosopher He Had Thought Him To Be, But Had Been Driven To Heroic Investigations By The Need To Free Himself From His Own Neurotic Conflicts. Jean-paul Sartre ; Edited By J.-b. Pontalis ; Translated By Quintin Hoare. Translation Of: Le Scénario Freud, The Script Which Formed Basis Of The 1961 Motion Picture: Freud--the Secret Passion. Includes Bibliographical References. In 1958, John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a script for a movie about Sigmund Freud. The Freud Scenario, found among Sartre’s papers after his death, is the result. A fluent portrait of a man engaged in a personal and intellectual struggle that was to change the course of twentieth-century thought, the script was too challenging and—at a projected seven hours—too long for a Hollywood audience. The script remains an unrealized classic and a testament to two of the most influential minds in modern history.