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²⁴ Although Beauvoir states in relation to one such attack that ‘doctors have told me that the mescalin could not possibly have provoked this attack’ [POL 211], it is my contention that the mescalin experience did indeed in its residual effects provoke this and other similar attacks, although no doubt partly precipitated by, what Beauvoir goes on to call Sartre's ‘fatigue and tension engendered by his philosophical research work’ [Ibid]. It did more therefore, than Beauvoir admits viz. merely furnish Sartre ‘with certain hallucinatory patterns.’ [Ibid]. While I do not deny that Sartre was predisposed to bouts of depression and chronic anxiety before he experimented with mescalin, I do deny that these bouts were in any way on a par with the post-mescalin attacks, or that they could have lead to his metaphysical analysis in the absence of mescalin.

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