The Metaphysics of Desire

Derrida "Violence and Metaphysics" Italics are the author's

• "Metaphysical transcendence is desire."
  
  
• "Thus, the metaphysics of desire is a metaphysics of infinite separation"
  
  
• "Incapable of respecting the Being and meaning of the other, phenomenology and ontology would be philosophies of violence."
  
  

Genesis

• Your desire shall be for [against] your husband, and he shall rule over you.” Genesis 3: 16 ESV
  
  
• If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for [against] you, but you must rule over it.” Genesis 4: 7 ESV