volervouloir

Volervouloir is a neologism used in philosophy and literary criticism to analyze the relationship between desire and action. The term blends the French verbs voler (to steal or to fly) and vouloir (to want or to will), highlighting how motive and deed can be linguistically and morally entangled in contexts of movement, possession, or intention.

Origin and usage have been in contemporary debates about volition and agency, with the coinage drawing attention to the polysemy of voler in French. It has appeared in francophone and anglophone theoretical writing to discuss subjects such as theft, elopement, or flight as metaphors for volition, as well as broader questions about how desire shapes action.

Core concept: A volervouloir frame analyzes how the will to act (volonté) and the act itself (voler) are co-constitutive. It is used to critique simplistic blame placed solely on intention or solely on outcome, illustrating moral complexity when desire drives illicit behavior or when the act reveals a deeper will to possess, escape, or transcend normative constraints.

Applications and reception: The term remains niche, employed mainly in critical essays and theoretical discussions. Some scholars view it as a useful heuristic for analyzing desire, responsibility, and law or ethics; others caution that its polysemy can complicate rather than clarify analysis.

See also: volition; moral psychology; ethics; linguistics.