However elegantly and precisely she lays her table, she has an equivalent and opposite desire to break into room-clearing noise.
Hence, two representation levels coexist in the mental model: the actual belief and the opposite desire in imagination.
Give respect to get respect; do not punish them until they conform; that has the opposite desired effect.
Her Odette is a woman torn between opposite existential desires: she needs the prince to love her (so that she may be free of her condition as a part-time swan) and she needs too to keep escaping from him.
The reality is actually the opposite: our desires and defenses come from the external media.
Those two opposite inner desires echo my appearance through masks often represented as the theme.
In fact it has inspired just the opposite: a desire for the remote, the otherworldly, and above all the meditative solitude of nature.
The argument that a taste for the ideal and the tabula rasa leads to terror, after all, would be more convincing if its opposite — a desire for an organic, authentic, traditional society — didn't lead to terror, too.
More realistically, however, given Ms. Seymour's observation that most tweens flock to major brands like Abercrombie & Fitch and American Eagle Outfitters, the trend represents exactly the opposite: the desire to be just like everyone else.
Asking, believing, presuming, claiming, taking pleasure in, approving, liking and its opposite, wishing, desiring, and willing are such modifications of the psychic attitude" (Dilthey 2002, 43).
