• I wrote in Les Mots that "I have often thought against myself." That sentence has not been understood either. Critics have seen in it a confession of masochism. But that is how one should think: revolting against everything "inculcated'' that one may have within oneself.

    Jean-Paul Sartre: I wrote in Les Mots that "I have often thought against myself." That sentence has not been
understood either. Critics have seen in it a confession of masochism. But that is how one
should think: revolting against everything "inculcated'' that one may have within oneself.