Sartre’s account of the sex organ as both driving and passive is internally inconsistent.

Evidence

Sartre’s view here could be more inconsistent than I initially thought. On the one hand, the “whole body” is responsible for putting in motion the sex organ in the sexual act and yet, on the other hand, the “whole body” is not a whole body, since it is comprised of at least one passive part, the sex organ. Speaking of the whole body as putting the sexual organ in motion would thus consist in an instrumental view of (a part of) the body, i.e., the sexual organ. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 118

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Beauvoir’s dialectical biology in The Second Sex, where sexual organs are lived rather than instrumentally deployed. — connects to: Sartre’s analysis of freedom is fragmented and internally inconsistent across Being and Nothingness — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 212

Broader Connections

• Sartre’s analysis of freedom is fragmented and internally inconsistent across Being and Nothingness #exemplifies (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 212