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Desire is however frequently manifested in the need for power and control and the desire to be a parent could
be motivated by an underlying need to exercise control on one’s own children. The need for authority is mainly
associated with aggressive impulses and the desire for power could be considered as motivated by both sexual
and aggressive urges. Politicians, leaders, managers, directors and people in positions of power whether
inancial, social or political often manifest strong desire to control and dominate people and situations. The
desire to earn more money, fame or attain certain social position is guided by the need for power and the need
to protect and provide care through control would also fall under this category. All political, social and inancial
leaders manifest this sort of desire. The question would deinitely arise whether celebrities (pop stars and ilm
stars) are also guided by this need for power. Of course celebrities are motivated by a need for admiration (this
is common even in authors and leaders) and the need for admiration is manifestation of subtle power rather than
any aggressive need to dominate and control as seen more clearly in political leaders.
3. Desire as fulillment of Purpose:
Desire could also be revealed as the need to fulill a purpose and in this case the desire takes the proportion of
a mission and achieving this goal becomes almost an obsession. This sort of desire could be found in social
or political leaders motivated by the need for change and a sense of purpose although this is akin to self-
realization needs in psychology and all humans are guided by a sense of purpose, no matter how big or how
small. Religious leaders and sages have a strongly developed sense of mission and purpose and are driven by
this sort of desire. Some authors and creative artists may also be ired by a sense of mission while writing a
book or creating a piece of art. Activists and social leaders and even terrorists and sometimes criminals are also
motivated by this sort of mission or purpose. Many serial killers, terrorists, activists, social and religious leaders
have a similar sense of purpose and the roots of this would be aggressive urges channeled either destructively or
constructively depending on how the urges are manifested.
All human desires could be categorized into these three groups with the motivating factor being creation of
progeny through sex and all creative urges would fall within this category; the need for power and all goals and
ambitions to acquire fame, money, status would fall in the second category; and inally the category of desire
associated with a sense of purpose explain self-realization needs in monks, religious leaders, and a sense of
mission in activists, spiritual and political leaders and even terrorists.
Thank you, Saberi Roy for your contribution from http://EzineArticles.
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be motivated by an underlying need to exercise control on one’s own children. The need for authority is mainly
associated with aggressive impulses and the desire for power could be considered as motivated by both sexual
and aggressive urges. Politicians, leaders, managers, directors and people in positions of power whether
inancial, social or political often manifest strong desire to control and dominate people and situations. The
desire to earn more money, fame or attain certain social position is guided by the need for power and the need
to protect and provide care through control would also fall under this category. All political, social and inancial
leaders manifest this sort of desire. The question would deinitely arise whether celebrities (pop stars and ilm
stars) are also guided by this need for power. Of course celebrities are motivated by a need for admiration (this
is common even in authors and leaders) and the need for admiration is manifestation of subtle power rather than
any aggressive need to dominate and control as seen more clearly in political leaders.
3. Desire as fulillment of Purpose:
Desire could also be revealed as the need to fulill a purpose and in this case the desire takes the proportion of
a mission and achieving this goal becomes almost an obsession. This sort of desire could be found in social
or political leaders motivated by the need for change and a sense of purpose although this is akin to self-
realization needs in psychology and all humans are guided by a sense of purpose, no matter how big or how
small. Religious leaders and sages have a strongly developed sense of mission and purpose and are driven by
this sort of desire. Some authors and creative artists may also be ired by a sense of mission while writing a
book or creating a piece of art. Activists and social leaders and even terrorists and sometimes criminals are also
motivated by this sort of mission or purpose. Many serial killers, terrorists, activists, social and religious leaders
have a similar sense of purpose and the roots of this would be aggressive urges channeled either destructively or
constructively depending on how the urges are manifested.
All human desires could be categorized into these three groups with the motivating factor being creation of
progeny through sex and all creative urges would fall within this category; the need for power and all goals and
ambitions to acquire fame, money, status would fall in the second category; and inally the category of desire
associated with a sense of purpose explain self-realization needs in monks, religious leaders, and a sense of
mission in activists, spiritual and political leaders and even terrorists.
Thank you, Saberi Roy for your contribution from http://EzineArticles.
com/?expert=Saberi_Roy
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