@William,
The cognitive aspect of desire? Aesthetic realism? (I see that in capitalised form, that is the name of a movement which has been accused of being a cult. I hadn't heard of it, and therefore wasn't referring to it.) Taking all of one's feelings seriously, including the good ones? I'm also reminded of the term 'pronoia', invented as an antidote to paranoia.
I'm also reminded of Robert C. Solomon's book
The Passions (1993), which argues that:
Quote:Emotions are intelligent, cultivated, conceptually rich engagements with the world, not mere reactions or instincts.
I must get around to reading that, and to reading more of Wayne C. Booth's
Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent (1974), which argues for:
Quote:The belief that that the primary mental act of man is to assent to truth rather than to detect error, "to take in" and even "to be taken in," rather than "to resist being taken in" [...]
Anyway, it's a nice invention. (I won't quibble about the Latin etymology!)