Jean-Paul Sartre Had a Bad Mescaline Trip (2018)

While he had previously confessed a fear of sea creatures, especially crabs, that went back to his childhood, after the mescaline trip, crabs featured prominently in his work, as Peter Royle shows at Philosophy Now. Samir Chopra quotes crab passages in Sartre’s first novel Nausea. “In one of his short stories, ‘Erostratus,’” notes Royle, “Sartre creates a character, Paul Hilbert, who looks down on human beings from a height and sees them as crabs.”

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