This is a departure from a unitary masculinity and focus on compromised formations between contradictory desires or emotions.

These contradictory desires were evident in his policy in Italy.

He taught that one's ego is really not one but many, or a multitude of independent, contradictory desires.

He's practiced at holding contradictory desires in his mind at the same time.

In fact, this profound play, in which Hedda's contradictory desires both compel her and are concealed from her, foreshadows Freud's notion of the unconscious.

Indeed, if anything, Microsoft is the creation of the contradictory desires of the American consumer - a monopoly that gives us too many choices.

We perhaps should have straightened this out at an earlier stage, for I can see that this debate embraces many incompatible and rather contradictory desires.

She wandered the house, restless and driven by too many contradictory desires.

"Stop the Show" is the most successful embodiment of the contradictory desires to soothe and sting that propel "Fame Becomes Me."

Tribal leaders, however, seem torn between contradictory desires: to keep outsiders away so that they can exploit the wealth themselves and to leave the diamonds in the ground untouched.