A plot called desire

Sira Abenoza, Anna Pazos, David Moragas and Adrià Targa 

Modera: Gabriel Ventura

Desire has always been opposed to reason and thought. Desire can mean urge, satisfaction, life, but it is also seen as something irrepressible and sinful that we must control. The Catalan philosopher Sira Abenoza argues that we always desire what we do not have, and therefore, desire arises from a sense of prohibition. A desire capable of changing lives and destroying empires. In David Moragas’ novel, desire becomes passion and shapes the fate of its main character. In turn, the poet Adrià Targa believes that ‘Desire never ends. It is a terrible thing.’ It is therefore necessary to offer a contemporary reading of desire as a driving force and its relationship with power, as Anna Pazos does, linking it with masculine and feminine eros. Four voices from poetry, the essay and the novel come together to speak at length and in depth about desire.