Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Dec. 2008
Desire is the strong inclination or taste for the achievement, knowledge and enjoyment of something, which in many situations It can even go from being just a strong inclination to become an uncontrollable need to satisfy that taste or enjoyment.
But in addition to referring to the inclinations or tastes that some person has, also the term desire is used to refer to sexual appetite and that is why for certain people who do not have an open mind or posture, the word "desire" is tinged and charged with a connotation something sinful (as who says). Thus, just by listening to it and even if it is related to the most näive, they will try to cover their ears so as not to hear the situation little moral that it proposes.
As long as and for the rest of the mortals who are not in this path, a wish can be associated and mean the nobler and more loving thing, such as the desire for peace in the world, leaving behind grudges, conflicts, battles and wars. So, in broader and more comprehensive terms, desire can be motivated by the achievement of strict material issues, or by people who are part of our affections.
On the other hand, wishes are the result of a process that begins with a emotion to later transform into feelings and finally in the wishes. For example, I have the desire to buy a sports car, but before becoming that desire, it all started as a feeling of attraction for that car. Desire, in a strictly scientific context, begins as a cerebral impulse that is sublimated in the form of emotion; when emotion is processed within the framework of our personality and our values, the time has come to conceive of that impulse as a feeling. From that feeling, the desire itself is arrived at, which is a social and affective equivalent of that initial emotion that gave rise to it.
All very nice, very nice... material desires on the one hand, altruistic desires on the other. However, wishes can sometimes become a double-edged sword for certain people who are not supported or firmly grounded. In these cases, the most sublime desires can become real nightmares for the person who craves them and for those around him.
Because it can happen, that for example, in the case of the desire for the sports car that I mentioned above, you want it with a strong and incredible vehemence, but in reality the necessary means, better known as the vile metal, required to fulfill that wish. So, unfortunately what can happen if one is not in cars of those things to which he can access and to those that do not, is that this desire turns into a frustration for not being able to achieve it and then becomes the formation of a attitude pessimistic and envious. In fact, according to many experts, the circuits that in our brain give rise to the Desires originate in much the same way as the networks of neurons that participate in the addictions; indeed, both systems share what is called reward responses, in which it is heavily involved. force the pleasure factor. Therefore, we pay attention to certain desires, especially those that obsess us or become really uncontrollable impulses... because some, as we see, are measured in various amounts of zeros.
Themes in Desire