Abstract
Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea breaks stereotypical assumptions about the semantics of novel formation in multiple ways. An introspective narrative which deals with strong incidences of uncanny experiences that the protagonist terms as “nausea”, it is a true “writerly” novel. Roquentin is a character that challenges the boundaries of the socially accepted norms of sanity at every step. His diary entries are in many ways the best possible way of understanding his disturbed self, and may be comprehended as confessional writing, making the novel as much a psychological novel as philosophical. The paper uses the praxis of Psychiatry, particularly the diagnostic criteria of Borderline Personality Disorder to unravel the aporia that Antoine Roquetin in particular and modern man in general poses.
Highlights
Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea (2010 edition, first published 1938) is considered a revolt in traditional novel writings
In the episodes of nausea that Antoine Roquentin goes through, the papers intends to study the characteristics of Borderline Personality Disorder
Using as a foundation the nine point diagnostic criteria (DSM-V-TR) of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association), which reveal themselves in patients with BPD, of which five need to be confirmed to make a diagnosis of BPD, the paper intends to study the character of Roquentin
Summary
Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea (2010 edition, first published 1938) is considered a revolt in traditional novel writings. In the episodes of nausea that Antoine Roquentin goes through, the papers intends to study the characteristics of Borderline Personality Disorder (referred as BPD ).
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