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A desire path, also known as desire line in transportation planning and many other names, [a] is an unplanned small trail formed by 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 the width and severity of its surface erosion are often ...
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 ...
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
Taṇhā is a Pali word, derived from the Vedic Sanskrit word tṛ́ṣṇā (तृष्णा), which originates from the Proto-Indo-Iranian *tŕ̥šnas, which is related to the root tarś-(thirst, desire, wish), ultimately descending from Proto-Indo-European *ters-(dry).
A suffering reference of the word Sehnsucht in Middle High German usage is associated with "Siechtum" in the German dictionary as follows: Weakening the disease reference, the word later denoted the high "degree of a violent and often painful longing for something, especially when one has no hope of attaining what is desired, or when attainment is uncertain, still distant."
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.
Wish fulfillment is the satisfaction of a desire through an involuntary thought process. It can occur in dreams or in daydreams, in the symptoms of neurosis, or in the hallucinations of psychosis. This satisfaction is often indirect and requires interpretation to recognize.
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]