Longing and Desire
Desire, lust, and melancholy — emotions organized around absence, wanting, and the bittersweet awareness of what passes.
3 chapters
Chapters
- 127 min
Desire, Attachment & Revenge
How desire and fear are two sides of the same coin, the Buddhist case for non-attachment, and why revenge consumes the person who carries it.
- 134 min
Lust
Lust is an intense craving beyond need, and how it differs from passion.
- 146 min
Melancholy
Why sadness can be sweet, why humans seek it in music and art, and the untranslatable words for longing that every culture has invented.