Talk:appel du vide

RFV discussion: May 2019–April 2020
"Urge pertaining to self-destructive behaviour": I'm not able to find actual French usage of the term, nor the origin of the phrase. Wiktionnaire doesn't have it, French Wikipedia cites an English book as source. Google Books doesn't return anything related to the claimed definition (in French, at least). – Jberkel 22:10, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * The relevant passage in the book given as source is:
 * “The French have a name for this unnerving impulse: l’appel du vide; ‘the call of the void’.”
 * This does not count as a use. Two sentences later Sartre is referenced in a way that suggests (but does not outright imply) that he actually used this specific term. The end notes direct us to an English translation by Hazel Barnes, Being and Nothingness (Washington Square Press, 1966), p. 345. I have a hard copy of L'être et le néant, but am not going to scan it for this phrase. There is a later edition of the translation by Barnes that can be previewed; I did not find the phrase there, and also not its English translation.  --Lambiam 23:39, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * RFV-deleted &mdash; surjection &lang;??&rang; 16:00, 19 April 2020 (UTC)