It is easy to associate Fervor with the drive and Catharsis with desire. Catharsis aim at a not-yet, an ultimate payoff. Fervor kicks down the old, the weak, renounces. If we strip away the mountains of technical language one can employ for these things: Catharsis makes its way to the sexual act, while Fervor consummates and finishes. Fervor desacralizes, rapacious and cruel, but no less true. Fervor: to be finished. And thereby to be freed from a mandate, available to new horizons