The classical trope of desire overcoming all obstacles, of the force of nature making culture conform to its imperatives veers toward the practical view of life partners as caring, compassionate helpmeets rather than unreliable and flighty sources of perpetual excitement.
The classical trope — of desire overcoming all obstacles, of the force of nature making culture conform to its imperatives — veers toward the practical view of life partners as caring, compassionate helpmeets rather than unreliable and flighty sources of perpetual excitement.
Drug taking is widely held to become compulsive in addiction (see, among many other instances, Leshner 1999; Hyman 2005; Everitt and Robbins 2005; Charland 2012), where 'compulsion' is cashed out in terms of an irresistible desire overcoming the agent despite her better judgment.
Whatever the course of action, you are the only one who can ultimately determine what is needed to satisfy your desires, overcome your obstacles, and achieve greater harmony with yourself.
We deeply value the good opinion of others – at the limit it is all that keeps us safe from attack – and even if a writer's desire to overcome shame is sincere, it would be surprising, perhaps even pathological, were he to be able to overcome it fully and without pain.
Jacobs is strongest when analyzing the tensions between Wollstonecraft's desire to overcome dependence and her irrepressible emotional neediness.
"Technology and alienation is familiar trope in literature and film," said Siok. "But the desire to overcome alienation is equally strong.
It was a prejudice I approached the installation with the desire to overcome: the history of cinema, after all, is the conflict of image and word.
This is a form of patriotism that only some nations fully understand — the burning desire to overcome not merely foreigners but all that is your own.
