Unconscious Desire

AKA: Blind Desire.
Context:
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Example(s):
- to consume luxury goods.
- to sabotage a relative.
- for a man that a lot of other women find attractive.
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Counter-Example(s):
- Conscious Desire, such as Hamlet's desire to avenge his father.
See: Conscious Emotion.

References

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mimetic%20desire
- QUOTE: Mimetic desire, the desire for what somebody else has or wants, accounts for why I really want to go out with a guy that a lot of other girls find attractive.

(Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet Retrieved:2014-9-10.
- … One such example is the centuries-old debate about Hamlet's hesitation to kill his uncle, which some see as merely a plot device to prolong the action, but which others argue is a dramatisation of the complex philosophical and ethical issues that surround cold-blooded murder, calculated revenge, and thwarted desire. More recently, psychoanalytic critics have examined Hamlet's unconscious desires, and feminist critics have re-evaluated and rehabilitated the often maligned characters of Ophelia and Gertrude.

Steve Jobs. (1998). BusinessWeek (25 May 1998)
- QUOTE: But in the end, for something this complicated, it's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.