The Object of Desire and the Totality of the Real
In point of fact, the intellect cannot justify the power of passion, and yet it naively considers itself obliged to deny that power. But in choosing to hear of other reasons but its own, the intellect errs; for it can go into the reasons of the heart if it so chooses, provided it does not insist on reducing them first to the calculation of reason. ... See more
The Object of Desire and the Totality of the Real
Bataille’s The Object of Desire