5 sentences with “desires”

We cannot get what we desire unless our partner also gets what he or she desires.

According to Freud, the mind was forced to conform to outside social pressure while enslaved to its own unconscious desires (the "urges") that sought unlimited power and pleasure.

In the context of his own deeply Victorian, bourgeois society, Freud identified that the demands of the Superego were primarily concerned with the suppression of desires arising from the Id.

The same is true at school. Dialogue, listening to each other, knowing and accepting that all members of the institution have needs and desires, respecting each other's places and roles, dealing with the conflicts that coexistence entails, are important elements for a well-functioning group.

It is always terribly difficult to reconcile one's own desires and the requirements of socialisation (of living in a society with its own rules and laws) and this inevitably leads to inner conflict. Thus, people form defence systems that may protect their emotions in the short term, but which return later in life to cause unhappiness and alienation.