The love enterprise’s true ideal is self-alienated freedom.

Evidence

Here in fact we encounter the true ideal of love’s enterprise: alienated freedom. But it is the one who wants to be loved who by the mere fact of wanting someone to love him alienates his freedom. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 957

Categorization

• XREF: ‘Alienated freedom’ as love’s ideal is the target Beauvoir reframes — her alternative is a love that preserves both freedoms without alienation. — connects to: Willing to be loved alienates the lover’s freedom into the body-for-others.; Freedom is the for-itself’s permanent ability to nihilate its own being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1075; Even self-directed sincerity converts freedom into a thing to escape it. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 310

Broader Connections

• Willing to be loved alienates the lover’s freedom into the body-for-others. #expands (1.00)
• Freedom is the for-itself’s permanent ability to nihilate its own being #complicates (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1075
• Even self-directed sincerity converts freedom into a thing to escape it. #corroborates (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 310