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Synonyms for desirous

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Synonyms for desirous

having or expressing desire for something

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These are ideologically saturated, imbued with normative standards of health and pathology and, furthermore, provide defensively consoling constructions (new self-understandings) in opposition to the deconstructive kinesis of the bodymind's desirousness. Psychotherapies thus all promote symptom alleviation at the expense of self-alienation, inadvertently sponsoring resistance as the solution, rather than the problem:
desirousness of obviating disputes and misunderstandings of any future arising problems, and wishing ourselves to be the persons upon which responsibilities are shouldered, as the carriers of the civilising mission of democracy.