life instinct
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Later, Freud formulated his famed "death instinct," into which suicide fitted neatly as death's triumph over the life instinct.
From Time Magazine Archive
To these combinations also all the phenomena of life, instinct, and intelligence in the world are to be referred.
From What is Darwinism? by Hodge, Charles
The machines intertwined their lessons with the basic drives, weaving a pattern of learned behavior with the life instinct.
From The Status Civilization by Sheckley, Robert
The life instinct in me would not be doomed, but was insistent in its demands and made me flee from insanity and death.
From An Anarchist Woman by Hapgood, Hutchins
Not only did the life instinct cling to them, to the warm human hands and faces hemming him in and protecting him from that darkness beyond with its shapes of terror.
From Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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