While there remains a question about the evolutionary utility of consciousness there can be no doubt of that of desire with its ability to mobilise energy and its subjection to a system of priorities and overrides. Desire however is intimately linked to consciousness in that phenomenologically what is at stake in desire is being itself in exactly the same way that at its core consciousness is the reflection of being. Desire brings about (its) object as directly, or more so, than consciousness. And yet it seems that consciousness can separate itself from desire, can become choiceless. One does not wish to separate them but rather than allowing desire to absorb consciousness to do the opposite and have consciousness absorb desire. What prevents this is the tightness of the connection between desire and its objects. Somehow this connection must be preserved but stripped of ontological force.