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    It is not the case that Attributing retardation to Erôs conflates a contingent biographical failure with a structural feature of the passion, which the text does not license.

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    • 1.Erôs systematically generates delay and incompleteness; retardation may be structural rather than merely contingent.
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    • 2.The text's own language might support reading retardation as intrinsic to desire's phenomenology, not external failure.
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    • 3.The distinction between 'structural' and 'biographical' assumes a clarity the text may not actually establish or intend.
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    • 1.The text distinguishes between Erôs as a universal structural force and particular historical instances of failed passion.
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    • 2.Confusing contingent biographical failures with essential features commits a category error that distorts philosophical analysis.
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    • 3.A passion's defining nature should not be determined by individual agents' inability to realize it fully.
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