I recently completed my PhD in the Department of Philosophy at Marquette University. I work primarily in the history of philosophy, with particular emphasis on nineteenth and twentieth century European philosophy, and the philosophy of psychoanalysis. My dissertation, entitled The Fantastic Structure of Freedom: Sartre, Freud, and Lacan, explores Sartre's fraught relationship with Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis. I argue that by shifting the emphasis in scholarly debates from concerns about the nature of the unconscious to questions about the role of imagination in psychical life, we can see that Sartre and Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalyt…

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