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nausea  

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  • , A term used by Sartre, and fundamental to Sartre's existential position, although first used by Levinas. In the essay ‘On Evasion’Levinas writes of la nausée and the need to escape oneself, and how in conversation one may move out of oneself. [Source: Dictionary of Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling; Nausea]

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