This paper discusses Sartre's thoughts about Freud. But Sartre argues that what Freud claims as unconscious repression is only self-deception. He explains this by saying that the patient has the dormant awareness of what ails him. The only trouble is that he is afraid to face or admit that he knows it. Or he rejects such a truth. There is the sharp difference between their theories: Freud says a person acting from the impulsions of his repressions cannot be responsible for his acts because they are unconscious. But Sartre says otherwise: a person has always had an awareness of what happens to him and is therefore always responsible - and accountable - for his every deed, because it is conscious and free. As he says, man is condemned to be free. If Freud acquits or shields man from culpability - under the guise of the unconscious --, Sartre accuses man for every act he makes because he is free and responsible, but is merely denying or avoiding facing that freedom and that responsibility.
