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
So far as she could judge, the qualities that she deemed necessary in the make-up of a robust life, instinct with purpose and accomplishment, seemed to be entirely lacking in Kennedy Square formulas.
From The Fortunes of Oliver Horn by Francis Hopkinson Smith
Gravity, organic life, instinct, human thought and affection, are forms of his influx manifesting itself in varying relations.
From The Elements of Character by Mary G. Chandler
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 Mrs. Humphry Ward
To these combinations also all the phenomena of life, instinct, and intelligence in the world are to be referred.
From What is Darwinism? by Charles Hodge
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