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A desire path between concrete sidewalks at the Ohio State University. 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 ...
How is a desire path different from a path?Autarch 14:37, 3 December 2009 (UTC) Fro what I understand, a desire path is a subset of path where paths can be designed or naturally occurring. Desire paths are the latter. --Jason Yip 01:28, 10 May 2010 (UTC) I think the term desire path refers to the erosion caused by human feet. Hence, an ...
Lacan uses his concept of the letter to distance himself from the Jungian approach to symbols and the unconscious.Whereas Jung believes that there is a collective unconscious which works with symbolic archetypes, Lacan insists that we must read the productions of the unconscious à la lettre - in other words, literally to the letter (or, more specifically, the concept of the letter which Lacan ...
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.
Path (computing), in file systems, the human-readable address of a resource PATH (variable), in computing, a way to specify a list of directories containing executable programs; Path (graph theory), a sequence of edges of a graph st-connectivity problem, sometimes known as the "path problem" Path (topology), a continuous function
The path of least resistance is the physical or metaphorical pathway that provides the least resistance to forward motion by a given object or entity, among a set of alternative paths. The concept is often used to describe why an object or entity takes a given path. The way in which water flows is often given as an example for the idea.
The death-of-desire thesis holds that desires cannot continue to exist once their object is realized. [8] This would mean that an agent cannot desire to have something if he believes that he already has it. [48] One objection to the death-of-desire thesis comes from the fact that our preferences usually do not change upon desire-satisfaction. [8]
If the desire is to take a definite direction, it is absolutely necessary that the idea of the object, from which the pleasure is expected, should also be present and should control my activity." [7] For Charles Fourier, following desires (like passions or in Fourier's own words 'attractions') is a means to attain harmony.