As the mentioned research illustrates, illusions of control in which people believe in their actions as effective generative causes of desired events have been extensively studied, and some variables that modulate the illusion have been identified.
The a stands for objet petit a, that is, object a as the "object-cause of desire".
As per Lacan's matheme, the subject's desires are scripted and orchestrated by an unconscious fundamental fantasy in which the desiring subject is positioned in relation to its corresponding object-cause of desire (a).
Cicero uses the term in De Natura Deorum (and other Roman and Greek Stoics use close cognates) in a psychological sense, referring to human desire, and Hobbes in his physiology uses the term to refer to the physical causes of human desire (Leviathan VI).
Preventing these sudden mass movements of people clearly requires addressing the root causes of their desire to flee.
If you drink with the intention of becoming very drunk on a regular basis, it's important to confront the causes of that desire, so you can start healing yourself and avoiding temptations.
With a conventional PID control, non-linear thermodynamics of the hydrogen-driven PAM actuator still highly affects the mechanical actuations itself, causing deviation of desired tasks.
Menopause may not, of course, be the only or main cause of waning desire, even when it takes the blame.
In other words, the cause of human desire is the natural inclination of a body to augment itself in accordance with the principles of the conatus.
The poor quality of the seed itself was then a cause of reduced desire for sexual intercourse so that either intercourse was avoided altogether, obviating any possibility of reproduction, or a man might experience weak, unsatisfactory erections preventing completion of the act of intercourse.
