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death wish
death wishn.1. Psychiatry a. A desire for self-destruction, often accompanied by feelings of depression, hopelessness, and self-reproach.b. The desire, often unconscious, for the death of another person, such as a parent, toward whom one has unconscious hostility.2. A suicidal urge thought to drive certain people to put themselves consistently into dangerous situations.
[Translation of German Todeswunsch.]death wish n (Psychology) (in Freudian psychology) the desire for self-annihilation. See also Thanatos death′ wish`
n. a conscious or unconscious desire for one's own death or for the death of another. [1910–15] death wishAccording to Freud, in addition to a “drive to survive,” we also have certain impulses known collectively as the death wish.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | death wish - (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to diedeath instinct, Thanatosdepth psychology, psychoanalysis, analysis - a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud; "his physician recommended psychoanalysis"impulse, urge - an instinctive motive; "profound religious impulses" |
Translationsdeath wish
death wishA desire, either conscious or, most often, unconscious, to die or to ruin oneself. The term dates from the late 1800s and originally was a translation from the German psychological term, Todeswunsch. By the 1930s it was being used figuratively, as in a 1947 article in the Partisan Review: “Even in America the death-wish of the business community appears to go beyond the normal limits of political incompetence and geographical security.”See also: death, wishdeath wish
death wishn.1. Psychiatry a. A desire for self-destruction, often accompanied by feelings of depression, hopelessness, and self-reproach.b. The desire, often unconscious, for the death of another person, such as a parent, toward whom one has unconscious hostility.2. A suicidal urge thought to drive certain people to put themselves consistently into dangerous situations.death wish Freud's ‘thanatos’, which, like so many of his concepts, was derived from classical mythology. This idea, conceived late in his career, proposed that responses such as denial and rejection of pleasure or the repeated seeking of extreme danger indicated a general wish or instinct for death.death wish
Synonyms for death wishnoun (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to dieSynonymsRelated Words- depth psychology
- psychoanalysis
- analysis
- impulse
- urge
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