life instinct
Britishnoun
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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 Smith, Francis Hopkinson
The dance satisfied this life instinct, which, when that outlet was made difficult, sought some other way.
From An Anarchist Woman by Hapgood, Hutchins
The term will is used by Schopenhauer as a general term covering the whole dynamics of life, instinct and desire, as well as volition.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton
With life instinct All things that are, to thee are linked By subtle ties; and none so mean Or loathsome hast thou ever seen, But wonderous in make hath been.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
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