The common idea of love is a fusion of the individuals into one. The idea has
permeated throughout society so that it has now been taken for granted. Such an idea of
fusion of two individuals is actually harmful rather than helpful. In this thesis, I will
show why the fusion model is not a prime model of love that one should follow, starting
with Sartre. He is the paradigmatic example of the traditional model of love going
wrong. By taking the fusion model to its final culmination, love is impossible or
among other things sadomasochistic. Beauvoir reads Sartre's view as a bad-faith
version of love. She inserts her view by giving an account of the ÃÂÃÂwoman in love
which is an example of a woman under Sartre'ÃÂÃÂs interpretation of love. After showing
why love under Sartre cannot be true, Beauvoir states that authentic love can only
happen if the individuals are equal. That way, love can have grounds for culmination
and fusion. Irigaray looks at the fusion model as debunked. She sees what Sartre and
Beauvoir try to do but they are still assuming major things. Irigaray states that genuine
love is based on the differences particularly sexual differences ÃÂÃÂwhich Sartre and
Beauvoir have failed to realize. By looking at Irigaray'ÃÂÃÂs account of love, the traditional
fusion model is debunked and love based on differences is applauded.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/5920 |
| Date | 17 September 2007 |
| Creators | Miller, Shaun Douglas |
| Contributors | Hand, Michael |
| Publisher | Texas A&M University |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Thesis, text |
| Format | 513704 bytes, electronic, application/pdf, born digital |
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