There are few more desirable, or desired, possessions than a fine timepiece.
The reciprocity of their relations will not do away with the miracles – desire, possession, love, dream, adventure – worked by the division of human beings into two separate categories; and the words that move us – giving, conquering, uniting – will not lose their meaning.
Shinto, the indigenous religion of Japan, offers colorful examples of both desired and undesired possession.
Meanwhile, France, to secure its alliance, allowed Italy a free hand in Ethiopia, which Italy desired as a colonial possession.
In all love affairs, there comes a moment when desire demands possession.
"To be passed on as treasures and preserved from generation to generation, century to century, they had to inspire the desire of possession".
Or ironising Proust, whom a vigilant desire for possession and knowledge imprisons in a pendulum that swings between suffering and boredom?
The myths that surround art theft – whether the obsessive desire for possession caused by great works of art, or the notion of an underworld in parallel existence to our own – need to be unpicked with great care.
"We are all hard-wired to desire power, love, possessions.
17 Consumerism has been measured in a variety of ways among both adults and children or young people, including scales representing dimensions such as possessiveness and envy, 8 desires for possessions or wealth, 9 consumer involvement 11 and number of material possessions.
