Hyperseparation from the feminine makes others only contingent means to self-contained ends

Evidence

The masculine, hyperseparated self of feminist object relations theory is a self which has not merely separated from but distanced itself maximally and reactively by repudiation of the feminine and the mother. Because it is hyperseparated from the other, which it does not encounter as akin, it lacks essential (as opposed to accidental) relations to others, and its ends have no non-eliminable reference to or overlap with the welfare or desires of others. In a tally of the desires and ends of the rational egoist self, others can figure only as means to its own self-contained ends, since it does not recognise or include among its own ends the ends of others, or recognise their relationship. The ends of others appear, where they do, only accidentally or contingently and as a means to its own ends, as in enlightened or rational self-interest. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 529

Categorization

• XREF: Bridges to Merchant by adding psychoanalytic object-relations mechanism to the historical account of the masculine self. — connects to: Dualism demands hyperseparation achieved by magnifying differences and denying shared qualities — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 201; Plato’s subordination targets the feminine as a category, not actual women — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 297; Exploiting femininity to the extreme can paradoxically grant women near-masculine independence — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1684 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Man defines woman not in herself but in relation to himself #expands (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 13
• Exploiting femininity to the extreme can paradoxically grant women near-masculine independence #complicates (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1684
• The Other is constituted by negation as the self which is not myself #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 675
• Male-authored justifications of female subordination reflect self-interest, not truth #expands (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 59
• Hyperseparation from nature is healed by neither secession nor boundary dissolution #corroborates (0.70) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 669