death instinct

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.

death instinct

A primitive impulse for destruction, decay, and death, manifested by a turning away from pleasure, postulated by Sigmund Freud as coexisting with and opposing the life instinct. Also called Thanatos.

death instinct,

instinctive behavior that tends to be self-destructive.

instinct [in´stinkt]

a complex of unlearned responses characteristic of a species. adj., adj instinc´tive.

death instinct Freud's concept of an unconscious drive toward dissolution and death, in opposition to the life instinct.

herd instinct the instinct or urge to be one of a group and to conform to its standards of conduct and opinion.

life instinct Freud's concept of all the constructive tendencies of the organism aimed at maintenance and perpetuation of the individual and species, in opposition to the death instinct.

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Things come to an end when there is no longer any hope or faith, when the life force surrenders to the death instinct," Henry Miller wrote in the 1940 edition of The World of Sex.

Riding Toward Everywhere by Bursey, Jeff / Reviewer's Bookwatch

Byline: DAVID EDWARDS Cert 15 *** Mesrine: Public Enemy No1 is the second of a two-part work based on the autobiography Death Instinct by Jacques Mesrine, one of France's most infamous criminals.

MESRINE: PUBLIC ENEMY NO1; MOVIES by The Mirror (London, England)

Freud3 declared that suicide is an expression in human beings of instinctual destruction, which in turn is an interchangeable element of the death instinct.

The sense of self and suicidal behaviour: a case-study by Zepinic, Vito / International Journal of Health Science

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