The theory of desire

Book title: Theory of Desire Author: Idris Nagour Publisher: Saba Page Summary: Desire is a powerful force and a multi-dimensional psychological movement, working in all directions, and possessing characteristics that enable it to control the human being, guide their life, and influence their behaviors, attitudes, and actions. Among its characteristics is that it is inherently contradictory and constantly changing in its development and history. As much as it is positive and effective, motivating work and pushing towards construction and progress, it is also negative and destructive, leaving nothing behind. And because it is connected to the human being, the amazing and unique creature, it derives all its components from him and is influenced in its functions by the environment in which the human moves and acts. Therefore, it constantly chases—like humans—its goals, always seeking satisfaction, demanding more, with no limit to its wildness and no end to its outbursts. Thus, only death is capable of overcoming and subduing it. This book comes to address it as a theory and practice that accompanies humans throughout different stages of their lives, within Western thought, from Plato to René Girard, the contemporary French thinker who paid much attention to desire and other related issues, including its sister concepts that sometimes become confused with it.