Erotic disclosure captures otherness by making us at home in the world
Evidence
If we align the thought of the joy of disclosure with the idea of the erotic as disclosing the emotional warmth of the world, we fi nd that the erotic event captures the otherness of being as it makes us at home in the world. As fl eshed intentionalities we pursue the disclosure of otherness because we fi nd it joyful. We fi nd the disclosure of otherness joyful because it is part of an emotionally warm/ welcoming world. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 658
Categorization
- STORYSTEM: A sensuous, embodied phenomenology of being-at-home-through-otherness could seed a first-person literary scene.
- XREF: connects to: Married partners invent erotic fantasies to restore the alterity marriage erased — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1194; Self-disclosure works because intimate information signals rare trust; The lover’s self-presentation demands the Other’s free recognition to succeed