Sartre’s fear of Beauvoir’s le trouble made her treat it as shameful

Evidence

Does not this opposition remind us of the original clash, which took place at the time of Beauvoir’s early love for Sartre, between the pure translucid consciousness— which Sartre had convinced Beauvoir that they were— and the great trouble she experienced in his presence? And because Sartre was terribly afraid of Beauvoir’s trouble, she had come to see it as a shameful malady. But by 1955, Beauvoir had learned the great value of le trouble, which impels one to abandon oneself to the other. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 139

Categorization

• XREF: Core to the reader’s Beauvoir-Sartre influence historiography: Sartre’s ideals shaped what Beauvoir initially suppressed about her own experience.