PHL100Y1 Lecture : PHL 319 Lecture 2
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A desire or wish is something that you want to satisfy, and this involves behaving in a certain way. When i have a wish, i want to satisfy it. I t often happens that one wish will conflict with another wish. When you have an opposition of wishes and you act on something else instead, you could say you are substituting an action for your original desire/wish. Contrast this with another series of mental states: perceptions. Perceptions could be like realizations, or knowing or general cognition. There is less notion of satisfaction and action tied to this set of mental states. When freud speaks of mental states, he has the desire category in mind more times than not. This is not to say that he never means the alternate type of mental states. * the notion of subs here, is crucial for f. this is seen in the two neurotic examples.