The structure of our desire, which precedes our consciousness, is murderous. That desire ensures that our cultural constructs, our language and our knowledge are radically inflected by the lie which fails to recognise this, fails to see God in humans who are 'other', or ourselves in our victims, which is to say the same thing. (64-65).


Faith Beyond Resentment: fragments catholic and gay (2001) - "Jesus' fraternal relocation of God"

James Alison Quotes

The structure of our desire, which precedes our consciousness, is murderous. That desire ensures that our cultural constructs, our language and our...

The structure of our desire, which precedes our consciousness, is murderous. That desire ensures that our cultural constructs, our language and our...

The structure of our desire, which precedes our consciousness, is murderous. That desire ensures that our cultural constructs, our language and our...

The structure of our desire, which precedes our consciousness, is murderous. That desire ensures that our cultural constructs, our language and our...