ABSTRACT
Desire is… Desire is never having an object or name to call one’s own. It remains wanting.
Excessive, desire connotes a heterogeneity that overflows channels of communication and utility. Powerful, desire disciplines and directs as much as it resists and transgresses. Desire is of bodies; of bodies that are not themselves but rendered other by looks and languages that lie elsewhere. Desire is of the Other and in interminable relation to the Other. Gendered, desire engenders and disengenders, articulates as much as it disconnects. Desire is of the copula that never closes the distance between subject and object. Desire is to want to be at one with oneself as one’s own object, image and signifier.
