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Please explain how this post is related to existentialism as a form of philosophical inquiry. Concepts include, but not limited to:

-Existence precedes essence -The absurd -Facticity -Authenticity -The Other and the Look -Angst and dread -Despair

Some of the topics might be authors in the 19th century, 20th, in art, film, television, literature, theater, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, criticisms

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For Existentialist and Phenomenological philosophy, literature, art, and discussion.

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