>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.
writes Frances Batycki.
Perhaps Belsey is wrong. I experience desire most strongly in the presence
of the loved one, not when the loved one is lacked -- or if you will
absent. And, of course, I can be satiated and still desire dessert. You
may read that sentence as metaphor, if you desire.
And, of course, no one is ever satisfied (or desirous) in the future.
Longing for the future may be linked to nostalgia for the past. We still
live and desire and long -- right now, this very now.
Yours, Bill Godshalk
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* University of Cincinnati *
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