Genesis 2:18, which speaks of the man being alone. Here the issue is with the solitude of “ ‘man’ (male and female) and not only with the solitude of the man-male, caused by the absence of the woman.… [T]his solitude has two meanings: one deriving from man’s very nature, that is, from his humanity … and the other deriving from the relationship between male and female” (5.2, p. 147). The solitude deriving from man’s very nature enables us: to link man’s original solitude with the awareness of the