But if desire is, as Catherine Belsey puts it so succinctly, "the
experience of lack" the future tense increases that experience in a way
the demands of the present tense cannot. The "I want it now" may be the
present tense expression, but the future tense indicates that the
speaker lives the experience of lack and always lives in expectation and
tension with a future satisfying of his/ her desire.
Frances Batycki
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