In reflecting on Spinoza's famous propositions in the third part of the Ethics Balibar points to the distinction between desire and the will: 'The will is the name we give to each [man's] effort to preserve [himself], when by a fiction we think of the soul [mind] in isolation from the body', Balibar notes, while desire is inseparable to the soul and the body in Spinoza's Ethics. The will thus gives a partial and 'inadequate idea' of the unity of [man]. (Spinoza and Politics, 105)
In thus bringing together P6 and P95 of the third part of the Ethics , Balibar creates the following synthesis: