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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 ...
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
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.
J. R. R. Tolkien was an English author and philologist of ancient Germanic languages, specialising in Old English; he spent much of his career as a professor at the University of Oxford. [5] He is best known for his novels about his invented Middle-earth , The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings , and for the posthumously published The ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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]