To give another example: therein also resides the deadlock of the “open marriage” relationship between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir: it is clear, from reading their letters, that their “pact” was effectively asymmetrical and did not work, causing de Beauvoir many traumas. She expected that, although Sartre had a series of other lovers, she was nonetheless the Exception, the one true love connection, while to Sartre, it was not that she was just one in the series but that she was precisely one of the exceptions—his series was a series of women, each of whom was “something exceptional” to him.
– Zizek - There’s no sexual relationship
on the paradox of exception and universal
on the paradox of exception and universal
To give another example: therein also resides the deadlock of the “open marriage” relationship between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir: it is clear, from reading their letters, that their “pact” was effectively asymmetrical and did not work, causing de Beauvoir many traumas. She expected that, although Sartre had a series of other lovers, she was nonetheless the Exception, the one true love connection, while to Sartre, it was not that she was just one in the series but that she was precisely one of the exceptions—his series was a series of women, each of whom was “something exceptional” to him.
– Zizek - There’s no sexual relationship
on the paradox of exception and universal
on the paradox of exception and universal
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