4/26/13 The pervert in love Bataille and Sartre as inverted Christian lover by Jonathan McCormack During his mother’s funeral, the story goes, Bataille excused himself, went over to her coffin, and masturbated, ejaculating all over her corpse. Not flowers exactly, but a parting gift, or anti-gift, that very well demonstrates Bataille’s conception of love. His idea’s were absorbed somewhat later in Sartre's own conceptions of love and its