On desire: its development and some clinical examples.
This paper defines a progression through five aspects of the concept of desire: (1) the Hegelian concept of desire given to Jacques Lacan by Alexandre Kojeve; (2) Lacan's subsequent addition of the Freudian concept; (3) Anthony Wilden's redefinition of the Lacanian rendition used to illustrate some aspects of clinical practice; (4) the Freudian theory of social behaviour recapped: a tension exists between what the mass of others expects us to do and what we want to do; and finally (5) the philosopher Stuart Hampshire's elucidation of how desire may be known. This paper combines these authors' expositions of desire and sketches out its meaning and relevance for practitioners.
Conflict, Psychological↗