The figure of Nosferatu in that light becomes readable as a grotesque and frightening form of desire, a version of the awakened or indulged wish that's both irresistibly powerful and pestilentially dangerous.
Women may not, in fact, have an innately narcissistic form of desire, but may be offered only the position of narcissism by the visual culture that is called upon to evoke desire.
She could hear, though, his voice thick with an excitement that she recognized as belonging to the first phase of infatuation, when even speaking about your lover, saying ordinary things about him or her, is a form of desire.
More troubling is a writing style that tips from the colourful into the bizarrely baroque with phrases that sound wonderful, but don't appear to have any meaning: "the Great Public Leviathan was up and out of its chair and scooping down the atmosphere with a gigantic spoon"; or my favourite, "But revolution, like sodomy, was just another form of desire".
Why do we tell our kids and ourselves that following some form of desire is the key to job satisfaction?
This leads in turn to the formation of attachments, in the form of desire and aversion, and the strengthening of ignorance concerning the true nature of sentient existence.
Such deviations are motivated by the universal human assumption that interactors have 'face,' in the form of desires for the interactional acknowledgement of their social persona.
But in the highest life, the life of Intellect, where we find the highest form of desire, that desire is eternally satisfied by contemplation of the One through the entire array of Forms that are internal to it.
Everything that man creates or acquires, begins in the form of desire.
LaBruce also unpacked the concept of gerontophilia during the course of the interview and the way this form of desire guides the trajectory of the film.
