"Desire is a human way of passing from a physical attraction to a psychic and even a spiritual feeling. Being rooted in nature, desire can transform a merely natural belonging into a psychic or spiritual belonging which can remain sensitive [capable of feeling], thus peculiar to each. Desire builds bridges between our body and our psyche and our mind, but also between us as living beings,"
"in particular between us as naturally, thus sexually, different. As longing for the naturally different other, desire aspires after transcendence, a transcendence which can remain sensitive, and not be abstractly universal. Unlike needs, desire as such cannot be satisfied by consumption, thus it compels us to evolve and to maintain transcendence, notably the one resulting from difference, as a horizon never completely overcome."
Desire functions as a human process that moves from physical attraction to psychic and spiritual feeling. Being rooted in nature, desire can convert natural belonging into a psychic or spiritual belonging that remains sensitive and unique to each individual. Desire creates connections among body, psyche, and mind, and it links living beings, especially through natural sexual difference. As longing for the naturally different other, desire aims at a sensitive transcendence rather than an abstract universal. Unlike needs, desire resists satisfaction by consumption and thus propels continual evolution and the maintenance of transcendence arising from difference.
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