The concept of energy is abstracted from the experience of desire. The desire is to incorporate the other. The act of incorporation is the act of copulation.

"Eating is the form of the fall. The woman gave me and I did eat. Eating is the form of sex. Copulation is oral copulation; when the Aranda ask each other, 'Have you eaten?' they mean 'Have you had intercourse?'" Love's Body. 166.

The desire to incorporate is the source of the ordering of the dream body. When hunger stirs, the body awakens. The dream body is satiate; it is full, and thus free of the desire to eat. But hunger is just sleeping; the satiety of the body implies a hunger. Upon awakening that hunger is explicit.

Every story begins with an awakening and every story ends with a fall into sleep. The story unfolds within the dream and refolds into the dream; the dream contains the story. Hunger is a response to the perception of an empty space within the body. Eating perpetuates the empty space; it is only in the dissipation of the desire to eat that the empty space is once again full.