Spreading the Word: Tangled Business of Desire

It’s great knowing what you want and going after it. But sometimes, perhaps more often than we care to admit, it is a too-good-to-be-true sort of story. I don’t mean it just in the sense that it can be very difficult or even impossible to get what you want. There is a more surreptitious side to our desires. Have you ever wondered if what you think you want is actually, really what you want? Or might it be something you have, for whatever reason, internalised as what you should want and strive for? In her recent article in psyche, psychotherapist Charlotte Fox Weber explores the tangled complexities of our desires.

“He had spent years trying to feel grateful for a counterfeit life. But when people have lost touch with their desires, they protest. This man’s refusal to feel gratitude for the ‘shoulds’ was his life force coming through.”

_{Charlotte Fox Weber from her article on ‘psyche’}

Link to the article: Getting what we think we want can reveal just how complex desire is

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