Mutual dependence mixed with hatred is among the most pitiful of human relations.

Evidence

In truth, that two individuals hate each other without, however, being able to do without each other is not at all the truest, the most moving of all human relations; it is one of the most pitiful. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1352

Categorization

• XREF: Aphoristic inversion that resonates with Sartre’s ‘hell is other people’ and the miroir relationship in his No Exit — Beauvoir’s corrective to romanticized dependency. — connects to: Intense hatred of foes destroys the shared humanity that would evoke compassion; Hatred unifies with its object through destruction, mirroring reconciliation. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 159
• DEFINE: Surprising claim challenges bourgeois mystification that routine and mutual hatred constitute the ‘deepest form of love’.

Broader Connections

• Intense hatred of foes destroys the shared humanity that would evoke compassion #expands (0.82)
• Hatred unifies with its object through destruction, mirroring reconciliation. #expands (0.78) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 159