a sense of desire.]” Concluding his argument, this last section directly contradicts the idea that love is something beyond wish. In the context of the story told before this passage, it essentially says that love is a punishment and that we are doomed by the task of trying to find our other half. With this in mind, the ideas of attraction and desire, should not necessarily be included in its initial idea because if we know that there is only one person for us, then the desire lies in being complete, not in lust.