Some women appropriate another’s transcendence rather than pursue objective aims

Evidence

This is not, here, a question of ambitious women having chosen personal aims and using men to reach them—as did Mme de Staël and the princesse des Ursins—but rather of women animated by a wholly subjective desire for importance, with no objective aim, trying to appropriate for themselves the transcendence of another. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1823

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharpens the defining contrast between instrumental ambition and narcissistic appropriation of another’s transcendence — a key analytic move in the narcissist chapter.
• XREF: The appropriation of another’s transcendence connects directly to the master-slave dialectic and Sartre’s for-others being developed elsewhere in The Second Sex. — connects to: Midlife women erupt into compensating desires and acts because they never freely chose goals. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1711; Women’s “revelations” are peace, not freedom, because they lack action — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1764; Women in love seek to be indispensable rather than merely wanted (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Mystical revelation serves women’s own already-chosen aims rather than directing them #expands (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1915
• Marginalized position pushes women to seek self-realization in imagination rather than action #corroborates (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1942
• Some feminists appropriated the movement to serve individual careers rather than collective change #exemplifies (0.80) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 551
• Implicit chivalric romantic ideals reduce women’s career and income ambitions #exemplifies (0.75) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 771