Mapping the history of desire in psychology and existentialism (linking it to Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude)
Psychological Desire: Freud, Lacan, Jung, Deleuze, .. libido and happiness, freedom, love is a repressive apparatus? Nomadic love..etc
Existential Desire: desire turns into a code of existence; Sartre and Buttler (desire is a force working through the subject’s character), Sartre desire and free choice, the notion of ownership in being and nothingness, Nietzsche (desire to add meaning to the existence, Heidegger (instead of desire, he talks about mood ‘stimmung’, desire is subjective, ‘dasein’), Schopenhauer’s view of desire and free will.
What is desire? Why people desire what they desire? How do psychologists see desire? What is the relation between desire, unconscious, repression, and self-mastery and self-discovery?
Do the lidinal drives create happiness amd freedom? Dig into related concepts like meaning, free will, sex and sexuality, existence..etc
