LITERARY TERMS


Absurd-That which is meaningless

Nausea-"the taste of the facticity and contingency of existence"

Metaphysical Rebellion-"movement by which man protests against his existence and against the whole of creation...the metaphysical rebel protests against the condition in which he finds himself as a man"

Nihilism-a feeling of nothingness, mechanical, void of emotion

Bad Faith-a lie to oneself

Dissociation-a split in consciousness

Dissemble-to hide under or put on a false appearance: to conceal fact, intentions, or feelings

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