Desire


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1 Desire and the order of change, eros and telos.
2 The analysis of desire or appetite.
3 The roots of desire in need, privation, or potency, the instinctual sources of the libido.
4 The objects of desire, the good and the pleasant.
5 Desire as a cause of action, motivation, purpose, ambition, voluntariness.
6 The satisfaction of desire, possession and enjoyment.
7 The modes of desire or appetite.
8 Natural appetite, desires determined by nature or instinct.
9 Desires determined by knowledge or judgment.
10 The distinction between sensitive and rational desire, emotional tendencies and acts of the will.
11 Conscious and unconscious desires, habitual desire.
12 Desire and love, their distinction and connection.
13 Desire and aversion as emotional opposites.
14 The economy of desire in human life.
15 The conflict of desires with one another.
16 The attachment of desires, fixations, projections, identifications, transferences.
17 The focusing of desires, emotional complexes.
18 The discharge of desires, catharsis and sublimation.
19 Desire as ruler.
20 Desire ruling imagination, daydreaming and fantasy.
21 Desire ruling thought, rationalization and wishful thinking.
22 Desire ruling action, the unchecked expression of desires, incontinence.
23 Desire as subject to rule.
24 The regulation of desire by reason, the discipline of moral virtue or duty.
25 The restraint or renunciation of desire, abstention, inhibition, repression.
26 The results of repression, dreaming, symbolic overreactions, neuroses.
27 Desire and infinity.
28 The infinite tendency of desires.
29 The pursuit of pleasure.
30 The lust for power.
31 The accumulation of wealth.
32 The restless search for the infinite, the desire for the vision of God.


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