Desire

A person's will is identified with their effective first-order desire, that is, the one they act on, and this will is free if it was the desire the person wanted to act upon, that is, the person's second-order desire was effective.

Lacan's desire refers always to unconscious desire because it is unconscious desire that forms the central concern of psychoanalysis.

Brethren if you desire to have a change, if you truly desire a new beginning, you must be prepared to wait.

CSU Wagga psychology lecturer Rachel Hogg said people's desire to reinvent themselves in the new year comes from two main places - guilt, and a desire to feel in control.

Substituting piety for beauty, he suggests things are beautiful because we desire them; we do not desire them because they are beautiful.

When Jack didn’t make it in professional wrestling, that desire for a championship title didn’t exactly leave him, and he just switched the of the desire to his boys.

Amabile admits that some of the desire to create the commission was out of desire to see solitary confinement restricted from Colorado jails, something the report suggests as a recommendation.

Desire discrepancy is the number one issue he sees in his practice, and men are just as likely to be the low-desire partner as women, he says.

There is a desire for help, a healthy desire for help that seeks the Lord’s blessing and does not accept generalizations.

Eventually, the LAST desire, and perhaps the most fulfilled of all, is simply the desire to accept the end with grace, and walk through that final door.

City hall’s desire for more bike paths often seems mixed with the desire to discourage people from using cars by making driving difficult.

E.B. White once : “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world.

HSDD is a real problem: many women don’t desire penetrative sex and are distressed by this lack of desire.

Leaving Toronto would put his desire to win multiple championships against his purported desire to play at home in Los Angeles.

The relationships between the designers and their corporate overlords at Ford could be compared to those between filmmakers and production companies, the desire to create something unique coming into conflict with a desire to sell something.

As the chronic needs of its neighbors in Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Colombia, Venezuela and elsewhere became acute, the United States has been torn between a desire to intervene and a desire to isolate itself.

For, as we desire our own goodwill, we desire the goodwill of those who surround us.

God gives us a desire and when we come into agreement with it, that desire will manifest.

The board has a difficult job—balancing the desire of many parents to protect family time and preserve summertime traditions, while supporting students’ desire for a schedule that promotes success.

Abigail Adams expressed to her husband, the president, the desire of women to have a place in the new republic: I desire you would remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.