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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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He walks the listener briskly through the life and evolving ideas of Freud, using, with definitions, the vocabulary that has insinuated itself into the popular lexicon: id, ego, and superego: narcissism, aggression, repression, paranoia, free association, transference and countertransference; unconscious and subconscious; sex, the death instinct, and dream interpretation. In a 1943 manuscript entitled "The Pattern of Organic Life in America," Smith noted: "All monumental architecture is an objectification of the death instinct. This movie is about the death instinct manifesting itself in middle-aged criminals who have knocked themselves out, and the outlaws, of course, are neither imperialistic nor ideological. |
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