Belief in instantaneous sacramental love at the altar persists in ordinary piety

Evidence

Thus my facticity is saved. It is no longer this unthinkable and insurmountable given which I am fleeing; it is that for which the Other freely makes himself exist; it is as an end which he has given to himself. I have infected him with my facticity, but as it is in the form of freedom that he has been infected with it, he refers it back to me as a facticity taken up and consented to. He is the foundation of it in order that it may be his end. … Whereas before being loved we were uneasy about that unjustified, unjustifiable protuberance which was our existence, whereas we felt ourselves “de trop,” we now feel that our existence is taken up and willed even in its tiniest details by an absolute freedom which at the same time our existence conditions and which we ourselves will with our freedom. This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy: we feel that our existence is justified. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 949 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Being loved transforms one’s facticity from contingent to justified — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 949; Inauthentic love lets the beloved ratify one’s infantile fantasies instead of moving beyond them

Broader Connections

• Inauthentic love lets the beloved ratify one’s infantile fantasies instead of moving beyond them #complicates (0.80)
• Being loved transforms one’s facticity from contingent to justified #corroborates (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 949