Sriya Sridhar
@sris
Academic studying tech law and policy, seeking things that make sense and perpetual calm. Lit and poetry are my first loves
Sriya Sridhar
@sris
Academic studying tech law and policy, seeking things that make sense and perpetual calm. Lit and poetry are my first loves
It means that if you yearn to be free of a particular relationship and you feel that yearning lodged within you more firmly than any of the other competing and contrary yearnings are lodged, your desire to leave is not only valid, but probably the right thing to do. Even if someone you love is hurt by that.
“You mean to say,” I asked, “that people don’t really want out of the relationship itself, they just want out of the dynamic?” “That’s right,” she said. “They don’t want to go away from the person, necessarily. They want away from the feeling.”
On René Girard’s theory of desire, Cynthia L Haven