Sartre exemplifies the Lacanian masculine subject repressing attachment to the maternal body

Evidence

Sartre is thus the perfect example of Lacan’s theory that, as Judith Butler writes, “the subject comes into being, that is, begins to posture as a selfgrounding signifi er within language, only on the condition of a primary repression of the pre-individuated incestuous pleasures associated with the (now repressed) maternal body.” Moreover, Lacan insists that the masculine subject tries to hide the repression on which his would-be autonomy is grounded. Th is is certainly what Sartre did— most cleverly, throughout his life— until the Entretiens, during which he became completely transparent. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 131

Categorization

• QUESTION: What exactly happened in the Entretiens that made Sartre ‘completely transparent’ about this repression? Worth chasing down the specific text.
• XREF: Connects to Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and Butler’s reading of the subject’s founding repression; also relevant to psychoanalytic biographies of writers generally. — connects to: Sartre’s asexual for-itself is covertly masculine in its transcendence — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 107; Sartre derived his account of the vagina as lack from the phenomenology of slime — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 104; Sartre’s own writings drift from lived body toward instrumental body — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 99 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Sartre’s concept of the slimy encodes a gendered fear of feminine appropriation #corroborates (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 133
• Sartre’s intellectual hyperactivity compensated for a repressed incestuous desire toward his mother. #corroborates (0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 130