enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Desire path - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path

    A desire path, often referred to as a desire line in transportation planning and also known by various other names, [a] is an unplanned small trail created as a consequence of mechanical erosion caused by human or animal traffic. The path usually represents the shortest or the most easily navigated route between an origin and destination, and ...

  3. Desire lines (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_lines_(disambiguation)

    A desire line is a synonym to "desire path", a path created by erosion caused by human or animal foot traffic. Desire line or Desire Lines may also refer to: Literature

  4. Four Right Exertions - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Right_Exertions

    The Four Right Exertions (also known as, Four Proper Exertions, Four Right Efforts, Four Great Efforts, Four Right Endeavors or Four Right Strivings) (Pali: sammappadhāna; Skt.: samyak-pradhāna or samyakprahāṇa) are an integral part of the Buddhist path to Enlightenment (understanding). Built on the insightful recognition of the arising ...

  5. Objet petit a - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objet_petit_a

    In the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, objet petit a stands for the unattainable object of desire, the "a" being the small other ("autre"), a projection or reflection of the ego made to symbolise otherness, like a specular image, as opposed to the big Other (always capitalised as "A") which represents otherness itself.

  6. Lacanianism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacanianism

    The fundamental desire is the incestuous desire for the mother, the primordial Other. [16] Desire is "the desire for something else", since it is impossible to desire what one already has. The object of desire is continually deferred, which is why desire is a metonymy. [17] Desire appears in the field of the Other—that is, in the unconscious.

  7. Pathos - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathos

    Pathos (/ ˈ p eɪ θ ɒ s /, US: / ˈ p eɪ θ oʊ s /; pl. pathea or pathê; Ancient Greek: πάθος, romanized: páthos, lit. 'suffering or experience') appeals to the emotions and ideals of the audience and elicits feelings that already reside in them. [1]

  8. Kama - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama

    John Lochtefeld describes kama as desire, noting that it often refers to sexual desire in contemporary literature, but in ancient Indian literature kāma includes any kind of attraction and pleasure such as those deriving from the arts. Karl Potter describes [19] kama as an attitude and capacity. A little girl who hugs her teddy bear with a ...

  9. Magical realism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_realism

    In electronic literature, early author Michael Joyce's afternoon, a story deploys the ambiguity and dubious narrator characteristic of high modernism, along with some suspense and romance elements, in a story whose meaning could change dramatically depending on the path taken through its lexias on each reading.