Sartre’s ideal mother figure prefigures his later doctrine of self-abandon to the other.

Evidence

Sartre’s discovery of the body as fl esh— as he opposes his paradigm of the perfect mother, in which he extols the notion of fl esh, to Caroline’s poor mothering. Th is discovery will certainly infl uence Sartre’s view of self-abandon to the other in the Entretiens. He writes that the mother must become fl esh in order to “feed, nurture, caress the fl esh of her fl esh,” thus instituting between her and the child a libidinal, even erotic, relationship (IF, 57). — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 148

Categorization

• XREF: Traces a concept from Sartre’s Flaubert biography forward into the Entretiens, a specific intra-Sartre influence chain. — connects to: Late-life Sartre endorsed reciprocal mutual self-abandon in love, reversing his earlier stance — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 122; Sartre’s late Hope Now ideas emerged from Beauvoir’s notion of reciprocal self-abandon — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 156; Nausea allegorizes Sartre’s repression of desire for self-abandon to his mother — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 133 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Nausea allegorizes Sartre’s repression of desire for self-abandon to his mother #expands (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 133
• Sartre’s late Hope Now ideas emerged from Beauvoir’s notion of reciprocal self-abandon #expands (0.82) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 156
• Sartre’s intellectual hyperactivity compensated for a repressed incestuous desire toward his mother. #expands (0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 130