desire

Desire (seldom also desire ) is an instinctual experience lying between involuntary striving and conscious volition .

etymology

The word desire is an abstraction derived from the adjective greedy (adjective abstract ). The noun greed comes from the Indo-European root * ghi . The old adjective ger - still contained in the word desire - has been replaced by greedy, ahd. Girig . The weak verb greed in the sense of greedily demanding has also been preserved.

Conceptual content

Desire or desire denotes the mental drive to remedy a subjective experience of deficiency with an associated desire to acquire an object or condition that appears suitable to remedy this deficiency.

In the case of desire, it is more the associated mental factors ( emotions , fantasy , desires or compensation of the associated needs ) that determine the direction of the spiritual drive, whereas in the case of desire, it is more the physical factors ( urges , pain , addiction , hunger, thirst, libido or compensation) the associated needs).

The term desire is often used in language, poetry and literature as a metaphor for sexual pleasure , while desire - among other things through the coining of the term Jacques Lacan ( désir ) - especially in the vocabulary of science such as psychoanalysis and feminist philosophy (e. B. Judith Butler ) has found entrance.

Gabriel Tarde used desire as a starting point for sociological theory.

Many religions and philosophical currents propagate that failure to pursue desires leads to happiness, including many philosophies from East Asia (e.g. Zen Buddhism ) and ancient Greece (e.g. Cynicism and Stoa ). Asceticism and simple life are lifestyles for which this principle is central.

literature

Christian Borch, Urs Stäheli (Ed.): Sociology of Imitation and Desire. Materials for Gabriel Tarde. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-29482-6 .
Franz X. Eder: culture of desire. A story of sexuality. Munich 2002.
Carolin Emcke : As we desire. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-017018-7 .
Thomas Gebel: Crisis of Desire. Theories of Sexuality and Gender Relations in the Late 20th Century. Publishing house Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-8300-0501-6 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Desire - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Wikiquote: Desire - Quotes

Tim Schroeder: Desire. In: Edward N. Zalta (Ed.): Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .
Luc Vendramin: Desire and Need translated by Jean-Pierre Baudet

Individual evidence

↑ Georgi Schischkoff (Ed.): Dictionary of Philosophy. 22nd edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1991, Lemma Desire.
^ Friedrich Kluge : Etymological dictionary of the German language. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1975, Lemma Desire.
^ Friedrich Kluge : Etymological dictionary of the German language. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1975, Lemma Gier.
↑ Christian Borch, Urs Stäheli: Tardes sociology of imitation and desire. In this. (Ed.) 2009, pp. 7-38.

[1] Georgi Schischkoff (Ed.): Dictionary of Philosophy. 22nd edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1991, Lemma Desire.

[2] Friedrich Kluge : Etymological dictionary of the German language. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1975, Lemma Desire.

[3] Friedrich Kluge : Etymological dictionary of the German language. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1975, Lemma Gier.

[4] Christian Borch, Urs Stäheli: Tardes sociology of imitation and desire. In this. (Ed.) 2009, pp. 7-38.