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Desire & Drive

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I've Described as Buyer's Remorse

i think buyer's remorse is the confrontation with the idea that your desire can never be satisfied. i like, once to tear through the boxyeye el it on christmasyelike a kid. The object of desire is the iphone. And so we are not satisfied. So one way of thinking about this opposition between desire and drive is drive entails the, again, unconscious recognition that it's the aj satisfies usobject. But desire believes that the object of want is what satisfies u. Giving me e will be, will produce thesatisfaction but it never is that that produces the satisfaction.

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