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The Jungian school enlarged the definition of the libido into a vital life-force, or Bergsonian �lan, of which the sex drive is only a component�and not a very big one at that.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bergsonian dialectic regards ordinary "spatial" time as an inferior category; and finds the real movement of life in a species of time called "duration," which can only be detected by the interior feeling of intuition.

From The Complex Vision by Powys, John Cowper

It may be that something would be left of the Bergsonian philosophy if one eliminated the consequences of these initial blunders, but I do not know what the remainder would be.

From Recent Developments in European Thought by Various

In rereading "Expression" recently, I was struck, not so much by its Emersonian manner, as by its Bergsonian ideas.

From Our Friend John Burroughs by Barrus, Clara

Further, the Bergsonian psychology furnishes a standpoint from which criticism of monophysitism is easy.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)