Desire
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| - | :"Human sexuality is, quite apart from Christian [[repression]]s, a highly [[questionable]] phenomenon, and belongs, at least potentially, among the [[extreme]] rather than the ordinary experiences of humanity. Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the [[demon]]ic forces in human [[consciousness]] - pushing us at intervals close to [[taboo]] and [[dangerous]] [[desire]]s, which range from the [[impulse]] to commit sudden arbitrary [[violence]] upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the [[extinction]] of one's consciousness, for [[death]] itself." --Susan Sontag in the ''[[Pornographic Imagination|The Pornographic Imagination]]'' | ||
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Desire may refer to:
- Interpersonal attraction
- Preference, on which microeconomic theory is based
- Motivation, thought that leads to an action
- A concept in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory related to the Oedipus complex
- Desiring-production
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