"to wish or long for, express a wish to obtain," c. 1200, desiren, from Old French desirrer (12c.) "wish, desire, long for," from Latin desiderare "long for, wish for; demand, expect," the original sense perhaps being "await what the stars will bring," from the phrase de sidere "from the stars," from sidus (genitive sideris) "heavenly body, star, constellation" (but see consider).
“无意识的欲望如何投注到一个社会、经济与政治的场域？爱怎么才是普遍的历史的衍生物，而不是爸爸-妈妈的衍生物？”
（欲望-生产（Desiring-production）：欲望作为生产性、创造性的流动，而非弗洛伊德所解释的匮乏。
德勒兹对“自我意识”一章的理解，把黑格尔“欲望一般”理解为在同一的无限差异中不断生产和分化的过程，一种欲望的流动性，是在一个解放性的维度上。但黑格尔讲的是在生命的流动性中，自我意识要不断地自我认同、与他者互动、反思，返回自我同一的欲望。）
desire, the waning of, the tendential fall in desire and libidinal energies; as desire wanes, drives increase; contrast with Marx's theory of the tendential fall in the rate of profit, Jameson's theory of the waning of affect, and Žižek's theory of the decline in symbolic efficiency.
找到这么“一个通往快感的平面”，就会挨了生命中的痛苦，还觉得生命值得一过（ce qui vaut la peine dans la vie），而不太可能自杀了。相比起来，全球多少名都是很次要的事了。