What Heidegger calls 'care' would otherwise be called simply desire, any difference being purely of emphasis. Directed to the future, to some general state of affairs in which there is an interest, a stake - an arc cast forward in time from a keenly felt present - and what underlies this arc, its ground or condition, is the subject. Subjectivity and desire are inextricably linked, and yet it is also everyday experience that desire exceeds the subject, perhaps even precedes and brings it about in its own way. The desiring comes from another and is too strong for the subject to bear, so the latter accompanies it, moderates it, assumes it. There can be no desire without a subject, but that subject can as well be self as other - it only cannot be object.