Sartre described slime’s yielding softness as its defining trait.

Evidence

Sartre elaborates: “Th row water on the ground; it runs. Th row a slimy substance; it draws itself out, it displays itself, it fl attens itself out, it is soft [molle]; touch the slimy, it does not fl ee, it yields” (EN, 655; BN, 775). — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 400

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gives the famous passage defining slime (le visqueux) in Being and Nothingness, central to Sartre’s account of the affective body.
• ADDENDUM: The slime passage is a concrete case of the affective/vital qualities discussed in the grafting article’s mode — though more directly relevant to the sacrifice article’s sensory motifs.
• XREF: connects to: Sartre’s ontology of the slimy derived from personal disgust rather than pure insight — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 392; Sartre’s concept of the slimy encodes a gendered fear of feminine appropriation — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 133

Broader Connections

• Sartre’s ontology of the slimy derived from personal disgust rather than pure insight #complicates (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 392
• Sartre’s concept of the slimy encodes a gendered fear of feminine appropriation #expands (0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 133