In the First Part of His Autobiography, Entitled Words,Jean-Paul Sartre Describes How As a Child He Discovered That Words Gave Him Asense of Power and a Control of a World from Which He Felt Divorced, and How Hedeveloped the Habit of Adopting Personae to Cope With Reality. But This, Hewrote, Gave a Pattern to His Adult Life and Led to Difficulty In Coming Toterms With His Own Personality and Its Emotional Needs. Two Concepts Wereimportant In Sartre's Thought: One Wasalienation and the Other Angst. In His Autobiography He Gives These a Personalreference. Alienation Was Concerned With His Difficulty of Dealing Withreality, and Angst With the Anxiety and Fear His Emotions Evoked. Words Forsartre Were a Means of Dealing With These; They Provided What the Psychiatristscall a Defensive Mechanism.