Desire: Flaubert, Proust, Fitzgerald, Miller, Lana Del Rey

In the novels and plays of Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Arthur Miller and in the music of Lana Del Ray, desire operates in a complex, slippery way that eludes philosophical and psychoanalytic attempts to pin it down. These, and other great works of literature, corroborate René Girard’s understanding of desire as taking shape “according to the other’s desire.”