Ownership is realized negatively by barring others, not positively by holding

Evidence

First of all, the idea of possession is always impossible to realize positively; the truth is that one never has anything or anyone; one attempts to accomplish it in a negative way; the surest way to assert that a good is mine is to prevent another from using it. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 343

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: This is a genuinely philosophical, paradigm-level insight: Beauvoir roots the entire policing of female virginity in the logical impossibility of positive possession — a dense, structural claim that explains a vast system of social control from one existential premise.
• XREF: connects to: Ownership of wealth is real only when one can part with it freely — , A Year of World Stories, 12081; Possession defends the self against the Other’s power to define it

Broader Connections

• Ownership of wealth is real only when one can part with it freely #expands (0.85) — , A Year of World Stories, 12081
• Possession defends the self against the Other’s power to define it #expands (0.80)