Desire’s failure to reach incarnation can flip consciousness into masochistic submission

Evidence

“What I want from a woman is to give her pleasure”; the living warmth of voluptuousness would imply complicity: he accepts none whatsoever; he prefers the haughty solitude of domination. He seeks cerebral, not sensual, satisfactions in women. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 467 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: For Sartre, the For-itself is constituted by desire, so annihilating desire destroys consciousness itself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 59; Attempting to appropriate the Other destroys the incarnational freedom desire sought — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 989; Desire singles out undifferentiated, nearly motionless flesh as the image of pure facticity (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Sadism originates in desire’s failure to sustain reciprocal incarnation #expands (0.92)
• Claiming to give pleasure while refusing to receive it masks a will to dominate #qualifies (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 467