The failure to possess woman drives man into self-alienation.

Evidence

In attempting to appropriate the Other, man must remain himself; but with the failure of impossible possession, he tries to become this other with whom he fails to unite; so he alienates himself, he loses himself, he drinks the potion that turns him into a stranger to himself, he falls to the bottom of deadly and roiling waters. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 355

Categorization

• XREF: Directly channels Hegel’s unhappy consciousness and Sartre’s failed desire-to-be-God; the impossibility of appropriating the Other’s freedom. — connects to: The male sex organ confronts man with his own imprisoned passivity. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 353; Man’s attempt to possess woman reverses into his own entrapment in the flesh — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 354; Men oppress women to flee themselves by alienating in an other. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1971 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Man’s attempt to possess woman reverses into his own entrapment in the flesh #expands (0.90) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 354
• Men oppress women to flee themselves by alienating in an other. #corroborates (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1971
• Man projects his own unattainable interiority onto woman as mirror and Other #expands (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 401
• The male’s need to take and satisfy women depends on deeming them worthless #expands (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 475
• Self-justification sought outside oneself collapses into perceived absurdity. #qualifies (0.75)