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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Ep. 234: Beauvoir on Romance in "The Second Sex" (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Concluding Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949): "The Woman in Love" and "Myths" with guest Jennifer Hansen.

We continue on the ailments of women under patriarchy as well as the existential problems that we're all subject to. Are we doomed to isolation, or does existentialism allow for intimacy? Is marriage in "bad faith"? We also talk narcissism, abjection, and the film Marriage Story.

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End song: "Easier than Leaving" by Michaela Anne, interviewed on Nakedly Examined Music #114.

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You're listening to the partially examined life episode 234 part two. We've been discussing

1:12.8

Simone de Beauvoir's the second sex that chapters the woman in love and myths. We ended

1:18.3

with Jenny getting into some cases of women who are acting like as is described in the

1:24.2

woman in love chapter, acting very narcissistic, acting very needy, acting very clingy and sort

1:28.9

of why men put up with that. So Jenny, I didn't understand that particular section is referring

1:33.7

to narcissistic women specifically. And this goes back to what I was saying earlier in

1:39.4

the conversation about just the structure determining the nature of the relationships.

1:44.4

It felt to me in reading this that she was basically saying if the woman in love her

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