| 单词 | death instinct |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdeath instinct death instinct n. †(a) the supposed natural ability of a vulture to sense the (impending) death of a person or animal (obsolete rare); (b) an innate drive towards bringing about one's own death postulated by Freud (cf. death wish n.).In quot. 1883 as part of an extended metaphor. [In sense (b) after German Todestrieb ( Freud Jenseits des Lustprinzips (1920) vi).] ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > theories of Freud > [noun] > death instinct death instinct1883 death drive1896 Thanatos1935 1883 Sanitary Engineer 1 Mar. 295/2 In the heavy slumbrous air of the tropics the Angel of Pestilence is..preparing to swoop with the death instinct of the vulture and the fierceness of the condor. 1921 Psyche & Eros 2 148/1 Freud feels obliged to recognize them [sc. the sexual instincts] as an exception to the instincts for death, as instincts for life which probably from the very beginning strove against the death-instincts. 1922 C. J. M. Hubback tr. S. Freud Beyond Pleasure Princ. vi. 38 The opposition between the ego or death instincts and the sexual or life instincts would then cease. 1961 J. A. C. Brown Freud & Post-Freudians ii. 27 The Death instinct is a force which is constantly working towards death. 1998 Guardian (Nexis) 24 July 14 The bookish Cobain knew that the nirvana principle was Freud's early conception of the death instinct. < as lemmas |
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