desirousness

Updated: June 22, 2025

And suddenly a new great circuit is established, the four poles all working at once, as the child sucks. There is the profound desirousness of the lower center of sympathy, and the superior avidity of the center of will, and at the same time, the cleaving yearning to the nipple, and the tiny curiosity of lips and gums.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence - Fantasia of the Unconscious