Desire and Addiction

摘要

Analysis of the etymology of the two terms, desire and addiction, requires a distinction between their common aspects and their differences. Desire is an awareness of a need to obtain a known or imaginary object. Addiction is a derived from the Latin word addictere meaning slavery, alienation, physically constrained. The immobilization observed in the alienation inherent to addiction contrasts with the dynamic tendency associated with desire. Desire could be defined as an active force, while addiction is a passive force. Desire is an emanation of life, and addiction is an expression of a process of death. The desire of love can also be distinguished from dependent love (addiction), and the sentence "I miss you" reflects the addictive dimension of love.