The Transcendence of the Ego

"The Transcendence of the Ego" is a short work byway they become nothing but transcendent objects.
Jean Paul Sartre, written in 1937 and which presentsAs objects they can not penetrate into the interior
us a phenomenological study of human consciousness.unity of our consciousness. This gives us the possibility
This work marked Sartre's break from the teachingsto think that in contrast to previous theories stated that
of Edmund Husserl.people couldn't not feel same emotion same way that
He rejects the idea of regarding the ego as a part ofthere is nothing impenetrable about others, except for
our consciousness and doesn't place the ego inside oftheir consciousness. The consciousness stays the only
it. He rejects both — formal and materialabsolutely impenetrable for others. A consciousness
presence of the ego in our consciousness and tries tocan't conceive another one but itself. The
prove that any ego is an external part of ourtranscendental sphere becomes accessible only to
consciousness like anybody else's one. It can bephenomenology which regards it as a sphere of
concluded from the following statements that ourabsolute existence and pure spontaneities which
emotions, my states and even our ego itself, cease todetermined themselves. The ego doesn't own a
be our exclusive property. Phenomenology placesconsciousness, it isn't inside of it.
states, emotions outside the consciousness and this