Feminine eroticism involves becoming an object to snare another

Evidence

For the girl, erotic transcendence consists in making herself prey in order to make a catch. She becomes an object; and she grasps herself as object; she is surprised to discover this new aspect of her being: it seems to her that she has been doubled; instead of coinciding exactly with her self, here she is existing outside of her self. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 845

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definition of the girl’s erotic transcendence as self-objectification: making herself prey to make a catch.
• XREF: Connects to Hegel’s master-slave dialectic and Sartre’s for-itself/in-itself; the girl splits into a doubled self. — connects to: Renouncing ego and control is required for authentic erotic reciprocity.; Female religiosity and eroticism both make the self an object for a transcendent being — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 705; Weaning from the mother’s body coincides with the child’s first attempts to seduce others — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 677 (+9 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The doubled-self formulation is the crux of Beauvoir’s existentialist-feminist account of femininity as alienation from one’s own body.

Broader Connections

• The female body’s shaping inverted from seduction into tactical concealment #contradicts (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 210
• Female desire is experienced as viscous passivity versus male predatory impetuosity. #expands (0.75)
• Veiling and ritual bodily acts train the self into piety #expands (0.72)
• Female sexual initiation often reads as sacrifice mixed with fear rather than pleasure #expands (0.70)