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instinct /in·stinct/ (in´stinkt) a complex of unlearned responses characteristic of a species.instinc´tive death instinct in psychoanalysis, the latent instinctive impulse toward dissolution and death. herd instinct the instinct or urge to be one of a group and to conform to its standards of conduct and opinion. life instinct in psychoanalysis, all of the constructive tendencies of the organism aimed at maintenance and perpetuation of the individual and species.
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It can be stated as follows: The ambivalent condition of the possibility of communication is to be found in the drives, for instance the Freudian death drive in so far as it manifests itself in the repetition-compulsion. nbsp;venganza, La dama duende, and Don Gil de las calzas verdes, Stroud explores the dramatization of such themes as the inherent otherness of desire, the working of fantasy in love, the play of the death drive, the nature of gender identity and the feminine masquerade. For example, Ganapati/A Spirit in the Bush, a tape that situates the killing of elephants within a cultural death drive to destroy the earth, is composed of continuously scrolling script that dislodges the slowed down images of elephants from their animality, linking them into a larger psychic symbolic structure about death, destruction and land. |
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