A man’s enduring love can transform woman’s sexual submission into transcendence

Evidence

Then the immanence of the instant is transcended; the burning memories are no longer a regret but a treasure; as it dies down, the sensuality becomes hope and promise; sexual pleasure is justified; the woman can gloriously assume her sexuality because she transcends it; arousal, pleasure, and desire are no longer a state but a gift; her body is no longer an object: it is a song, a flame. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1859

Categorization

• DEFINE: Exemplifies the immanence/transcendence distinction applied concretely: the lover’s vow lifts the woman’s sexual passivity out of immanence into transcendence.
• XREF: connects to: Male love requires woman as an object who remains unconscious of herself — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 614; The pimp’s violence paradoxically reinforces the prostitute’s erotic submission and love — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1671; A woman needs her male lover to remain transcendent, not relapse into immanence — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1872 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Female religiosity and eroticism both make the self an object for a transcendent being #expands (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 705
• Male sexuality integrates with individual transcendence while female sexuality does not #complicates (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 97