# Desire Index — Vol. 1 corpus analysis

*Generated: 2026-04-19T22:23:29.396Z*
*Tool: `scripts/ni/desire-index-vol1-extract.ts`*

## Scope

- **Mosaic passages analyzed:** 1,467
- **NI `excerpts` rows (total table):** 1,467 (not merged into passage-level stats in this pass)

## Arc distribution

| arc_stage | count |
| --- | ---:|
| installation | 419 |
| mechanism | 374 |
| management | 361 |
| permission | 178 |
| reclamation | 80 |
| late_life | 55 |

## Charge distribution

| charge | count |
| --- | ---:|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 130 |
| 4 | 664 |
| 5 | 669 |

## Voice type (classified)

_No `voice_type` values set on passages (classifier not run or column empty)._

## Top themes (global)

| theme | passages |
| --- | ---:|
| fiction | 253 |
| shame | 61 |
| mother | 31 |
| father | 26 |
| mirror | 24 |
| dissociation | 22 |
| memoir | 22 |
| class | 21 |
| fear | 19 |
| kiss | 19 |
| blood | 17 |
| body | 17 |
| hunger | 17 |
| breasts | 16 |
| refusal | 16 |
| humiliation | 15 |
| literary | 15 |
| masturbation | 15 |
| poetry | 15 |
| fantasy | 14 |
| hair | 14 |
| marriage | 14 |
| pregnancy | 14 |
| rape | 14 |
| touch | 14 |

## Top pairings (global)

| pairing | passages |
| --- | ---:|
| Venus | 464 |
| Stripped Nashville | 296 |
| Breast Archives | 252 |
| Bigorexia | 155 |
| The Perfect Vagina | 36 |
| Secrets of Polygamy | 28 |
| A Sexplanation | 12 |

## Top themes by arc (sample)

### installation

- **fiction** — 87
- **shame** — 22
- **mother** — 18
- **father** — 14
- **rape** — 10
- **memoir** — 9
- **class** — 8
- **mirror** — 8
- **breasts** — 7
- **dissociation** — 7
- **hair** — 7
- **adolescence** — 6

### management

- **fiction** — 59
- **shame** — 19
- **dissociation** — 6
- **humiliation** — 6
- **hunger** — 6
- **identity** — 6
- **memoir** — 6
- **mirror** — 6
- **mother** — 6
- **pain** — 6
- **bed** — 5
- **blood** — 5

### mechanism

- **fiction** — 50
- **shame** — 15
- **class** — 7
- **dissociation** — 7
- **fear** — 7
- **pregnancy** — 7
- **fantasy** — 6
- **jealousy** — 6
- **children** — 5
- **consent** — 5
- **hunger** — 5
- **violence** — 5

### permission

- **fiction** — 42
- **kiss** — 10
- **mirror** — 6
- **memoir** — 5
- **virginity** — 5
- **clitoris** — 4
- **embodiment** — 4
- **literary** — 4
- **naming** — 4
- **orgasm** — 4
- **shame** — 4
- **surprise** — 4

### reclamation

- **fiction** — 5
- **refusal** — 4
- **forgiveness** — 3
- **apology** — 2
- **autonomy** — 2
- **dance** — 2
- **defiance** — 2
- **desire** — 2
- **detachment** — 2
- **embodiment** — 2
- **escape** — 2
- **fear** — 2

### late_life

- **fiction** — 10
- **aging** — 5
- **time** — 4
- **father** — 3
- **hospital** — 3
- **publicmemoir** — 3
- **ambulance** — 2
- **body** — 2
- **breath** — 2
- **death** — 2
- **dying** — 2
- **euphemism** — 2

## Cross-source convergence (themes in ≥3 distinct sources)

_Mechanisms named independently across multiple books / films / interviews — editorially useful for synthesis._

| theme | distinct sources | passage hits |
| --- | ---:| ---:|
| shame | 44 | 61 |
| mother | 21 | 31 |
| fiction | 19 | 253 |
| father | 18 | 26 |
| mirror | 18 | 24 |
| dissociation | 17 | 22 |
| kiss | 17 | 19 |
| blood | 15 | 17 |
| refusal | 15 | 16 |
| fear | 14 | 19 |
| breasts | 14 | 16 |
| class | 13 | 21 |
| hunger | 13 | 17 |
| pregnancy | 13 | 14 |
| body | 12 | 17 |
| humiliation | 12 | 15 |
| masturbation | 12 | 15 |
| desire | 12 | 12 |
| bathroom | 12 | 12 |
| jealousy | 12 | 12 |
| fantasy | 11 | 14 |
| marriage | 11 | 14 |
| rape | 10 | 14 |
| hair | 10 | 14 |
| touch | 10 | 14 |
| guilt | 10 | 13 |
| sex | 10 | 12 |
| grief | 10 | 10 |
| silence | 10 | 10 |
| pain | 9 | 12 |
| orgasm | 9 | 12 |
| secrecy | 9 | 11 |
| children | 9 | 10 |
| escape | 9 | 10 |
| sleep | 9 | 10 |
| cold | 9 | 9 |
| hospital | 8 | 10 |
| naming | 7 | 13 |
| penis | 7 | 9 |
| identity | 7 | 9 |

## Sample passages (high charge, one per arc)

### installation

- **A2-002** (charge 5) — Action

### management

- **A2-001** (charge 5) — Action

### mechanism

- **AUE-003** (charge 5) — Available

### permission

- **AFD-002** (charge 5) — The Diary of a Young Girl (The Definitive Edition)

### reclamation

- **AUE-004** (charge 5) — Available

### late_life

- **BLB-002** (charge 5) — Bright Lights, Big City

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