ABSTRACT
Desire has most often materialized as lack or loss and has played an important role in psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysts do not agree on theories of desire. Readers of both the Hebrew Bible and Christian Bible are able to acknowledge elements and features of desire, be they drives, libido, or rooted in language. This chapter advocates for the radical integration of desires, which materialize as a result of multiplicity and plurality, and this can be traced theologically by recognizing entanglement as the primary orientation through which desire materializes. The act of queering desire is the result of the radical integration of our ekstasis with regard to the world while coming into embodied reality of self-knowing that reaches out for intimacy from isolation into interdependence. Neoliberalism has created a very particular subject that materializes in isolation and functions in categories of lack, loss, and results in the constant undoing of belonging together.
