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Desire: Works, Artworks & Types

Desires are states of mind that are expressed by terms like "wanting", "wishing", "longing" or "craving". A great variety of features are commonly associated with desires. They are seen as propositional attitudes towards conceivable states of affairs. They represent how an agent or organism wills things to be, unlike beliefs, which aim to represent how…

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Desire topic overview

The analysis highlights Works, Artworks and Types as prominent areas in the source structure around Desire.

Related topics
124
Source areas
10
Connected nodes
134
Extracted relationships
336
Concept neighborhoods
11
Bridge connections
134

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Psychology · 28 topics
Artworks · 20 topics
Types · 20 topics
Overview · 17 topics
Philosophy · 12 topics
Roles · 12 topics
Religion · 7 topics
Theories · 5 topics
Marketing · 2 topics
Formation · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

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Theories

Types

Roles

Formation

Philosophy

Religion

Psychology

Marketing

Artworks

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Desire connects Entity context

The extracted context around Desire shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Desire → Adam's Curse, All Things, Bed, Bram Stoker, Brontë's, Carol Ann Duffy's, Charlotte Brontë, Cholera, Civil War, Close, Dracula, Eliot, Forster's, Gabriel García Márquez, Gothic-themed Dracula, Gustave Flaubert, In, Jane Eyre, John Donne's, Lolita Another extracted example is Desire → But, Desires, He, Humean, Immanuel Kant, Instead, It, Kantian, Legalität, Moralität, On, One, Peter Singer, Some, Such, The, These, This. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Desire

Top relations

related to Texts · 47
Desire → Adam's Curse, All Things, Bed, Bram Stoker, Brontë's, Carol Ann Duffy's, Charlotte Brontë, Cholera, Civil War, Close, Dracula, Eliot, Forster's, Gabriel García Márquez, Gothic-themed Dracula, Gustave Flaubert, In, Jane Eyre, John Donne's, Lolita
related to Action, practical reasons and morality · 18
Desire → But, Desires, He, Humean, Immanuel Kant, Instead, It, Kantian, Legalität, Moralität, On, One, Peter Singer, Some, Such, The, These, This
related to Higher and lower · 18
Desire → An, Authentic, Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism, But, Christianity, Existentialists, Explicit, God, Higher, Hindu, Hinduism, In, John Stuart Mill's, Nishkam Karma, Noble Truth, The, This
related to Formation · 17
Desire → Aisha, An, As, Both, But, For, Instrumental, Intrinsic, It, On, So, Some, Something, Such, The, This, Without
related to Intrinsic and instrumental · 17
Desire → According, But, Constitutive, Desires, Driving, For, Haruto, He, Instrumental, Intrinsic, It, Pleasure, So, Something, The, They, Watching
related to Psychoanalysis · 16
Desire → As, Austrian, Even, French, Freud, Gilles Deleuze, Greek, He, Instead, Jacques Lacan, Lacan, Oedipus, Sigmund Freud, That, While, While Freud
related to Persons, personhood and higher-order desires · 15
Desire → According, An, Frankfurt, Harry Frankfurt, He, Higher-order, It, Many, Most, Not, On, Or, Personhood, There, They
related to Further reading · 14
Desire → Concept, Joel, Lexington Books, Marks, New Essays, Phenomenology, Philosophical Psychology, Skorin-Kapov, Speculation, Surprise, The Aesthetics, The Ways, Transaction Publishers, Wanting
related to Propositional desires and object-desires · 13
Desire → Arielle, Arielle's, But, But Louis's, Conditions, Louis, Object-desires, One, Propositional, Propositionalist, So, The, This
related to Films · 12
Desire → Also, Film, Gone, Hollywood's, Just, Like, Melodrama, Melodramatic, Rhett, Rhett Butler, Scarlett, Wind

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

desires theories one example object something would pleasure also intrinsic instrumental features usually things agent various states actions propositional beliefs

Desire relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 336 structured relationships around Desire. Examples in this analysis include Desire → causes → the subject to have this desire and Desire → is a → more fundamental notion and that preferences are to be defined in terms of desires. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Desirecausesthe subject to have this desire0.90text
Desireis amore fundamental notion and that preferences are to be defined in terms of desires0.90text
Desireis aform of lack related to incompleteness or a lost object0.90text
Desireis ahuman appetite for a given object of attention0.90text
Desireis adriving force for both Scarlett and the hero0.90text
Desireis akey motivating influence on the narrative of the film0.90text
erotic desireinstance ofPhilippe Borgeaud's novels analyse how emotions0.80text
seduction are connected to fearinstance ofPhilippe Borgeaud's novels analyse how emotions0.80text
wrath by examining cases where people are worried about issues of impurityinstance ofPhilippe Borgeaud's novels analyse how emotions0.80text
sininstance ofPhilippe Borgeaud's novels analyse how emotions0.80text
and shame.FilmsJust as desire is central to the written fiction genre of romanceinstance ofPhilippe Borgeaud's novels analyse how emotions0.80text
it is the central theme of melodrama filmsinstance ofPhilippe Borgeaud's novels analyse how emotions0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Desire bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Object, Would and Example. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Desire
    • Object
    • Would
    • Example
    • One
    • Instrumental
    • Desires
    • Something
    • Action
    • Human
    • May
    • Intrinsic
    • Cases
  • desire
    • Object
    • Would
    • Example
    • One
    • Instrumental
    • Desires
    • Something
    • Action
    • Human
    • May
    • Intrinsic
    • Cases
  • propositional attitudes
    • Propositional
    • States
    • Like
    • Possible
    • Features
    • Usually
    • Also
    • Beliefs
    • Well-being
    • Actions
    • Good
    • Human
  • sexual desires
    • Theories
    • One
    • Intrinsic
    • Instrumental
    • Actions
    • Terms
    • Desire
    • Features
    • Propositional
    • Something
    • Object
    • Example
  • states of mind
    • Propositional
    • Possible
    • States
    • Attitudes
    • Terms
    • Would
    • Like
    • Related
    • Subject
    • Preferences
    • Usually
    • Example
  • well-being
    • Theories
    • Preferences
    • Action
    • Reasons
    • Features
    • Good
    • Propositional
    • Terms
    • Usually
    • Instrumental
    • Intrinsic
    • Also
  • states of affairs
    • Propositional
    • Possible
    • Attitudes
    • Terms
    • Would
    • Preferences
    • Like
    • Related
    • Usually
    • Example
    • One
    • Theories
  • beliefs
    • Usually
    • Example
    • Actions
    • Good
    • Propositional
    • Things
    • Also
    • Something
    • Desires
    • One
    • Theories
    • Desire

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Desire, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Desire with Psychology. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
DesirePsychology · splits 106 ⟂ 29
DesireTypes · splits 114 ⟂ 21
DesireArtworks · splits 114 ⟂ 21
DesireOverview · splits 117 ⟂ 18
DesireRoles · splits 122 ⟂ 13
DesirePhilosophy · splits 122 ⟂ 13
DesireReligion · splits 127 ⟂ 8
DesireTheories · splits 129 ⟂ 6
DesireMarketing · splits 132 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Desire

Nodes135
Edges134
Triples336
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014815
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Desire to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Works, Artworks & Types, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Desire · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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