Beauvoir and Sartre’s economic temperaments mirror the two poles of phenomenological method.

Evidence

Beauvoir was generous too, but her openness was two-way: she liked to gather as well as to dispense. Perhaps, in their divergent styles, one can see the two sides of phenomenological existentialism: the part that observes, collects and pores over phenomena, and the part that discards accumulated preconceptions in the Husserlian epoché, so as to be free. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 392

Categorization

• SEED: This is a lovely organizing metaphor: reading the Sartre-Beauvoir relationship as enacting the tension between collecting phenomena and bracketing them away — could frame an accessible orientation piece on the method.