ABSTRACT
The word "passion" conjures up ideas of a world ruled by great and impulsive waves of emotion. The object of passion (God, the fetish, the loved one, the object of knowledge) immediately exhibits the character of the necessary and peremptory. A sort of psychic machinery is generated, directed imperatively to establishing a constant and excessive psychic contact with the object of passion. Passion is like an alien body that installs itself and dwells in a subject, to incite him to a gesture, an action, an excessive word, in an "outside himself" that constitutes his essence. Amorous passion is combined at this point with helplessness, it emerges as a temporary palliative, which masks the subject's vulnerability. Passion for the other falls into three spaces: corporal space, extracorporeal space and temporal space. The objects of passion are principally two: knowledge and sensuality.
