Consciousness as born of desire, not the symbolically mediated desire of embodied and acculturated life, but arising from the wish or whim of the absolute for self-manifestation, remains unconvincing, since such a desire must already have imagined what would satisfy it. Desire comes later, Aphrodite is not the first of the gods, nor ultimately the most powerful. The de-centred self is also a product of the meditation on desire. Pure being, lacks anything resembling a motivation, yet some sort of overflow of this principle is more in line with the nature of existence, for which desire serves as the forgetting.