The Sublimatory Process of Desire

Each of these orifices is a portal to it. These are all portals from one dimension, if you will, to the next. That's why the metaphor of the cave and the birth canal is so important here. The drive is a tunneling activity that emerges, pops up, and then goes right back down into the tunnels. It's constantly passing through openings that are sometimes closed, but oftentimes also open.