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  • The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.

    Sade (marquis de), Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “The Marquis de Sade: an essay by Simone de Beauvoir”