Neither philosopher wrote on self-abandon to the other between 1949 and 1974

Evidence

With the exception of Beauvoir’s 1955 “Faut-il brûler Sade?” which I discussed briefl y above, neither Beauvoir nor Sartre produced any more texts on self-abandon to the other, as such, during the period between Th e Second Sex/ Notebooks and the 1974 Entretiens. I view their trajectory during that period as a successful search for and return to the early idyllic mother, before she became, for each, devouring or smothering- before, that is, her unrelenting, devouring control of her daughter, in the case of Simone, or before she smothered her son with such feminizing aff ection that he had to repress his feminine side and his fear of incest with her, in the case of Poulou. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 145

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth verifying the claimed gap — the psychoanalytic reading of the couple’s whole trajectory as a return to the pre-Oedipal mother is a striking interpretive frame.
• XREF: connects to: Philosophers’ later intellectual turns are often political disengagements from earlier commitments — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 566

Broader Connections

• Philosophers’ later intellectual turns are often political disengagements from earlier commitments #expands (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 566