James A. Hoyt says he used to write up weddings and murders for South Carolina newspapers, and had to suppress desire to write realistically.
Thus one should "suppress" desire and aversion, and use only plain, emotionally unadorned impulse and counter-impulse (Encheiridion 2).
To live in the world in a way that can yield the treasure of deep and lasting fulfillment does not require you to deny or suppress desire.
"No doubt that beating Donald Trump is first, second, and third priority, so many are willing to suppress desire for a woman president if they are led to think that is necessary to beat Trump," Hogue wrote on Medium.
Green's "campaign to suppress desire", as one commentator put it, was not always popular, but he became one of London's much-loved eccentrics and took great delight in his local fame.
Just seeing other people smoke kindles all those suppressed desires.
For James, the unconscious included not just suppressed desires but also mystical forces.
Even before the hit movie "Twilight," "True Blood" on HBO offered a Southern gothic version of the torment of suppressed desires.
The hysterical symptoms she displays - "nervous heart trouble", panic attacks, a tendency towards mental breakdown - were all, Williams believed, indicative of suppressed desires.
Until, like all suppressed desires, it speaks up as a voice in our heads: "Pound him!" We all agree it takes a village to raise our children.
