1) Lust, according to Dante, is the "excessive love of others," excessive in the sense that it rivals and surpasses even God's love. It can be described as a strong desire, fervent passion, or uncontrollable sexual need. As is the case with every emotion, this emotional hunger is both attention directing and motivating. When lust is unfettered, it can lead to irrational behavior. In any event, lust is the unconscious projection and expression of emotional memories. People who are engulfed in lust may lose their senses, since lust appears to be incapable of recognizing the reality of a situation or pushes one to ignore it. Such passion is an implicit memory construct that is reinforced by conscious imagination. Implicit memory is important in the process of falling in lust and can be compared to what you have in your subconscious mind—emotional memories about early connection and love that guide your current behavior, aspirations, passions, and interests.
2) When we go beyond a fleeting sexual attraction to sexualizing people and
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God intended sex, like all creaturely gifts, to lead us to him, resulting in love and worship of his name. Our loves, on the other hand, are fundamentally disturbed as Adam's children. We displease God by preferring God's gifts to his, the Giver, because we are pleased with God's offerings. Augustine utilizes negative terminology to characterize his sexual drives throughout his autobiographical masterpiece "Confessions": desire is mud, a vortex, shackles, thorns, a seething cauldron, and an open sore that must be scratched.. Augustine's desire is nearly a compulsion for him, an inexplicable instinct that he believes he can't control without God's help, a bondage that he is too weak to break free from. According to Aquinas, lust afflicts the soul by allowing the lower power of the concupiscence hunger for sexual pleasure to triumph over the higher powers of reason and