Sartre’s two normal male escapes from embodiment—peer groups and the father—were both barred

Evidence

For Poulou, however, the fi rst two ways of escape were barred. He was completely excluded by his peers, never accepted by a single group of boys playing Pardaillan in the Luxembourg gardens: “Always imploring, always excluded,” Sartre observes laconically fi ft y years later (Mots, 111). And of course, he never knew his father. Th e fact that, as he writes, his mother “was all mine” (Mots, 24), and that conversely he was everything to her, only complicated further his eff orts to run away from his fear of embodiment. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 133

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the author’s earlier chapter as well as psychoanalytic accounts of Sartre’s childhood in his own memoirs (Les Mots). — connects to: A physical defect shaped Sartre’s life course and later addictions — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 463
• SHARE: For someone interested in Sartre biography: the detail that he was never accepted into any boys’ play group in the Luxembourg gardens, remembered fifty years later.

Broader Connections

• A physical defect shaped Sartre’s life course and later addictions #complicates (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 463