Because God, as hypernonymous, can never be made utterly present, desire is never satisfied in God. This is very different from how desire generally operates. For instance, if we desire a new car, the desire is fulfilled in its possession: what was previously absent has been made present and thus has satisfied the void which desire had formed. However, God is never made present in this way: God’s presence is always Hyper-presence. This is analogous to the idea of a ship sunken in the depths of the ocean: while the ship contains the water and the water contains the ship, the ship only contains
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