He calls it “ The Absurdity of the World.”Ĭonsider having dinner with your partner. Have you ever looked at a word hard enough and had the thought of it seeming unusually strange? Almost as if it were the first time you’ve heard the word?įor Sartre, this feeling extends way beyond words and things and encapsules the whole of life. It is believed that Sartre used the term Nausea after reading Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, where it is used and associated with contemplating the mediocrity of humanity. The world was waiting, holding its breath, making itself small – it was waiting for its attack, its Nausea”. I felt surrounded by cardboard scenery which could suddenly be removed. He finds situations and inanimate objects imbued with meanings which bear the stamp of his existence, all that he encounters in his everyday life is permeated with a horrible taste, evoking in him a sense of nausea, especially his freedom.
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