Every day in our vocabulary we use thousands of words, without even thinking about the fact that many of them are accurate psychological terms. Among those, there is one of the most common - desire. This word sounds from the lips of people more than often, and it happens that in reality it does not correspond to what has been said. Well, let’s try to figure out what it means and what its scientific significance is.
Terminology
In official psychological terminology, lust or desire is an average degree of will that fluctuates between ordinary desire and a conscious choice or decision. In other words, we can say that desire is called a need, which takes on a specific outline. The reason for this may be the cultural level of a person, his worldview and development, or the peculiarities of his geographical location. In all its forms, human desires are based on the activity of his mental or physical impulses, as well as on the work of the brain. The first ones give an impulse, and the brain gives this impulse concrete outlines, an action plan to achieve the cherished goal, etc.
Psychoanalysis
Thus, we can conclude. Desire is a passive state of the soul that combines willpower and certain emotional experiences, emotions, feelings. In the process of how a person feels the desire for something, he realizes what exactly he wants, understands why or for what reasons he needs it, and also roughly draws out possible ways to achieve his goal. In psychoanalysis, it is customary to believe that desire is an impulse, a kind of impulse that pushes a person to certain actions. Among such impulses, as Freud emphasized, there are conscious and unconscious.
How desires are born
To understand what desire is, just look at our daily lives. Every second we carry out any actions - mechanical, creative, guardian. We do many of them reflexively, both according to a packed scheme and over a long period of time. But in all these cases, it is desire that drives us in the brain, in the soul, and makes us act. Such desires, as a rule, are caused by natural phenomena. We want to eat because the body requires food. When there is a desire to eat a particular product, specific, it is worth considering that the body is deficient in certain vitamins. Every mother always has a desire to be with her child. Such impulses can, of course, be called simple instincts, but they are inextricably linked with the mentality, our worldview, tastes and preferences.
The spiritual side of the coin
If we consider this issue from a more creative side, then desire is an urge to make your life even more beautiful, and your inner world richer. The most vividly similar emotional impulses are traced in those people who have been accustomed to the beautiful since childhood. A pianist who is faithful to his instrument will constantly feel the desire to play, compose new works, improve his technique. On the basis of this, a desire may also appear, for example, to buy a new instrument (if the previous one is out of order), a new music book, and so on. Similarly, the artist will experience a simple desire to have all the necessary equipment and means to carry out his creative activities, like a dancer, an illusionist, a designer, etc.
