Resumen de Llegar a ser Simone de Beauvoir

Nora Levinton

• español

  A la manera de un Psicoanálisis aplicado a la obra de Simone de Beauvoir se señalan algunos aspectos cruciales que reflejan cómo se va configurando la vida y el pensamiento de una mujer que encarnó, para muchas de nosotras, un modelo de identificación. Su trabajo es en este sentido un espejo y una valiosa muestra de la naturaleza proyectiva de muchos de sus enunciados, donde a partir de su irreemplazable experiencia Simone arriba a conclusiones en las que podemos seguir el rastro de sus vivencias personales. En el contexto singular de su historia personal y en cómo es relatada. Al exponer su vida en sus libros y en numerosas entrevistas concedidas a distintos medios, ha dado lugar a que surgieran diferentes interpretaciones, por lo tanto a que sus palabras y argumentos puedan, como en este artículo, ser utilizados, contrastados entre sí y sometidos a exploración.

• English

  This article shows how Simone de Beauvoir´s work was crucial in helping to understand female subjectivity as a process dominated by the prevailing cultural values. Her writings represent a statement against invisibility of women as subjects and anticipate most of what decades later will be called “gender”. Although “The Second Sex”, is a controversial work, with many different readings and with opinions we might not share on some occasions, it was also a driving force that explained how the shortage of women´s representation is a result of having read the difference of sex as an absolute asymmetry. The article analyses Simone de Beauvoir´ essays, her autobiographical novels and the numerous interviews she granted, in search for ele¬ments that might help us understand how the life and thoughts of this woman were shaped. Through a series of quotes from three of Simone de Beauvoir´s autobiographical works, the article contributes to identify some features in the construction of Beauvoir´s subjectivity through her writings about her father and mother, her contradictory relationship with them, her experiences as the eldest child and other childhood memories.