Some married women respond to their new condition by refusing adulthood entirely
Evidence
Others remain abulic faced with a universe that “no longer seems real,” peopled only with ghosts and painted cardboard sets. There are those who try to refuse their adulthood, who will obstinately persist in refusing it their whole lives, like another patient whom Janet designates with the initials Qi: Qi, a thirty-six-year-old woman, is obsessed by the idea that she is a little tento twelve-year-old girl; especially when she is alone, she lets herself jump, laugh, dance; she lets her hair down, lets it loose on her shoulders, sometimes cuts it in places. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1275
Categorization
- DEFINE: Abulia — loss of willpower — is being deployed as a clinical term for the married woman’s paralysis.
- XREF: connects to: Newly married women suffer depression, boredom, and disgust at marital intimacy; Girls develop psychosomatic illnesses as an unconscious exit from marriage
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Newly married women suffer depression, boredom, and disgust at marital intimacy; Girls develop psychosomatic illnesses as an unconscious exit from marriage