ABSTRACT
The Transcendence of the Ego holds the question of fact in phenomenology, which J. P. Sartre presents after E. Husserl as a “descriptive science” of the life of consciousness, founded on the intuition of the lived experience itself, taken in its purity by means of the suspension of all facts issued from our life in the world. Sartre is inspired all else by Ideen, and he emphasized the great impact that it had on him: he at once draws from it the principal objection that can be made of him, the response to this objection, the title of his article, and the motivation for his entire second part. Sartre’s theory of the Ego reestablishes the process of constitution and stresses the magical characteristic of it, which denaturalizes and disqualifies it. Sartre thereby rejects all naturalist understandings of consciousness, which would immerse it into a chain of causes and effects.
