Slime and femininity both symbolize consciousness’s threat of lapsing into in-itself

Evidence

Sartre’s analysis suggests that the slimy and the feminine go hand in hand and that both qualities symbolize the threat of succumbing to being (in-itself). — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 378

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The slimy haunts consciousness as its own feared dissolution into facticity; Sliminess symbolizes a possible fusion of for-itself and in-itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1399; The slimy symbolizes the In-itself absorbing the For-itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1403 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Autonomous self-awareness structurally blocks feminine submission and spontaneous charm. #expands (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1922
• Male love requires woman as an object who remains unconscious of herself #expands (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 614
• Female sexual arousal involves self-alienation whereas male desire remains localized and self-conscious #corroborates (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 987