Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions (French: Esquisse d'une théorie des émotions) is a 1939 book by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.

This work contains some of his thoughts about human and emotions.

Some of his ideas later appeared in his masterpiece Being and Nothingness.

Sartre analyses prior ideas, including psychoanalytic theories before presenting his own phenomenological analysis.

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