Marriage defenders trace marital conflict to individual bad faith rather than the institution itself

Evidence

No one dreams of denying the tragedies and nastiness of married life: but advocates of marriage defend the idea that spouses’ conflicts arise out of the bad faith of individuals and not out of the institution’s. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1325

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the pro-marriage move: individualizing conflict away from the institution — the target Beauvoir will demolish. Core to her method of attacking marriage as a structure, not its members.
• XREF: Reinforces the existentialist framing from earlier parts of The Second Sex that bad faith is a chosen evasion; here it connects to Hegel’s master-slave and Sartre’s analysis of self-deception. — connects to: Marriage as an institution, not the individuals in it, causes conjugal misery. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1368; Bad faith operates by restricting another’s conduct to the present and refusing temporal meaning — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 291

Broader Connections

• Marriage as an institution, not the individuals in it, causes conjugal misery. #complicates (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1368
• Bad faith operates by restricting another’s conduct to the present and refusing temporal meaning #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 291