Myths substitute static idols for authentic lived relationships

Evidence

The myth is one of those traps of false objectivity into which the spirit of seriousness falls headlong. It is once again a matter of replacing lived experience and the free judgments of experience it requires by a static idol. The myth of Woman substitutes for an authentic relationship with an autonomous existent the immobile contemplation of a mirage. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 667

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the operational sense of ‘myth’ as a trap of false objectivity that freezes lived experience into a static idol.
• XREF: Directly connects to the ‘spirit of seriousness’ concept from Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, situating Beauvoir within the Continental tradition.