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Definition of Thanatos in English: Thanatosnoun ˈθanətɒs-ˌtäs mass noun(in Freudian theory) the death instinct. Often contrasted with Eros Example sentencesExamples - He was attracted to a mixture, as Epstein puts it, of Eros and Thanatos.
- Here was Norman O. Brown's vision of Eros and Thanatos translated into brilliant novelistic terms.
- Surely that's necessary, but as Freud pointed out almost a century ago, Thanatos and Eros are hard to keep apart.
- However, he argues further that if Freud is correct, the balance to Thanatos is Eros, or the love of life.
- Danger and death greet the poet's questing desire to excavate the lower reaches of the mind: Thanatos looms large in this writing.
Origin From Greek thanatos 'death'. Definition of Thanatos in US English: Thanatosnoun-ˌtäs (in Freudian theory) the death instinct. Often contrasted with Eros Example sentencesExamples - However, he argues further that if Freud is correct, the balance to Thanatos is Eros, or the love of life.
- He was attracted to a mixture, as Epstein puts it, of Eros and Thanatos.
- Danger and death greet the poet's questing desire to excavate the lower reaches of the mind: Thanatos looms large in this writing.
- Here was Norman O. Brown's vision of Eros and Thanatos translated into brilliant novelistic terms.
- Surely that's necessary, but as Freud pointed out almost a century ago, Thanatos and Eros are hard to keep apart.
Origin From Greek thanatos ‘death’. |