Nietzsche’s Zarathustra–a book for all and none–champions a love of the world an embrace life. Zarathustra’s life eternal becoming is, in German, Lust: taking pleasure that becomes–one’s own entire existence–eternally. “...[Lust] wants eternity things” (Z “Drunken Song” §11). It is overflowing sort love, too grand to be directed toward one person. In his humans, things, Zarathustra remains unab...

Mammals and birds have evolved three primary, discrete, interrelated emotion-motivation systems in the brain for mating, reproduction, and parenting: lust, attraction, and male-female attachment. Each emotion-motivation system is associated with a specific constellation of neural correlates and a distinct behavioral repertoire. Lust evolved to initiate the mating process with any appropriate pa...

The bifurcated treatment of love and lust dates to antiquity. The study of love as an academic subject is nearly a century old, with the sentiment covered in introductory textbooks of social psychology. Psychologists, primatologists, neuroanatomists and neurophysiologists came to see love—defined as an intense and complex feeling of deep affection—as responsible for long-term coupling and close...

Important spectral features, such as the emptiness of the residual spectrum, countability of the point spectrum, provided the space is separable, and a characterization of spectral gap at 0, known to hold for bounded scalar type spectral operators, are shown to naturally transfer to the unbounded case. Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

B Overview of Interpersonal Theory B Biography of Harry Stack Sullivan B Tensions Needs Anxiety Energy Transformations B Dynamisms Malevolence Intimacy Lust Self-System B Personifications Bad-Mother, Good-Mother Me Personifications Eidetic Personifications B Levels of Cognition Prototaxic Level Parataxic Level Syntaxic Level B Stages of Development Infancy Childhood Juvenile Era Preadolescence ...

This paper outlines two models for framing affection games as a contribution to the evolution of courtship rituals or as a matriculation through Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. It then frames the design of these games through two distinct lenses. The first is a game verb based framing, focusing on the affectionate actions designed to meet game goals. The second is an interaction dynamic framing, w...