Fear = attraction meets perceived self-loss.
Desire = attraction meets perceived self-gain.
The attraction itself may be prior to both.
Fear resists change.
Desire resists stagnation.
Both are anti-inertial forces.
Attraction + inertia → desire.
Repulsion + inertia → fear.
Desire and fear are not the motion itself.
Fear says: “Do not go there.”
Desire says: “Do not stay here.”
Both are objections to the present trajectory.
Both desire and fear are manifestations of resistance within a system trying simultaneously to preserve itself and transform itself.
Life drive vs Death drive
Desire for activity vs Desire for quiescence
Desire for sound vs Desire for silence
Seeking social expansion vs. Retreating from social interaction
[Family children relatives friends business work expansion] vs [retreat recluse hermit isolation ascetic]
Becoming/learning vs Withdrawing/fading
Descent(into form) vs Ascent(back into formless)
Health(body wanting to live) vs disease(body wanting to die)
[High amplitude cycles of wake-dream-sleep] vs Near flat-lining of these cycles
Interest/passion/libido/hedonia vs Disinterest/dispassion/anhedonia
Exploration/Expansion vs Contraction/Self preservation
Desire for sound vs Desire for silence
Seeking social expansion vs. Retreating from social interaction
[Family children relatives friends business work expansion] vs [retreat recluse hermit isolation ascetic]
Becoming/learning vs Withdrawing/fading
Descent(into form) vs Ascent(back into formless)
Health(body wanting to live) vs disease(body wanting to die)
[High amplitude cycles of wake-dream-sleep] vs Near flat-lining of these cycles
Interest/passion/libido/hedonia vs Disinterest/dispassion/anhedonia
Exploration/Expansion vs Contraction/Self preservation
Journey to the Abstract 