life instinct meaning

• noun
    (in psychoanalysis) the instinct for self-preservation and reproduction
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  [Medicine]
  n : EROS
  

• Freud's early concept of sexuality is still far remote from that of eros as life instinct.
• Therefore, life instinct and the will to existence is a field that is well worth doing in study of philosophic history
• According to this theory, Eros or the Life instinct ).
• On the other hand, the life instinct is the cause of friendship, love, reproduction.
• Freud, divided human instincts into two categories : death instinct ( Thanatos ) and life instinct ( Eros ).
• The id " knows no judgements of value : no good and evil, no morality . . . . Instinctual eros or the life instincts.
• Cahill carried out innumerable crimes, big and small, and he cheerfully used bombs and threats _ as well as refined low-life instincts _ to keep himself out of jail during most of his long criminal career.
• From the conservative, restorative character of instinctual life, Freud derived his death drive, with its " pressure towards death ", and the resulting " separation of the death instincts from the life instincts " seen in Eros.
• It is also the basis for the child perceiving goodness in others and herself . " The sense of an object being available and freely given arouses care, consideration and gratitude for the object itself as part of the life instinct . " ( Hinshelwood 1989)
• Sigmund Freud with his psychoanalytic projects, in " The Ego and the Id " ( 1923 ), speculates that sexual satisfaction by orgasm make Eros ( " life instinct " ) exhausted and leaves the field open to Thanatos ( " death instinct " ), in other words, with orgasm Eros fulfills its mission and gives way to Thanatos.

• "life instinct" meaning in Chinese: 求生本能
• "life instinct" meaning in Japanese: 生の本能｛ほんのう｝
• "life instinct" meaning in Russian: жизненный инстинкт; в психоанализе - эквивалент эроса.
• "life instinct" meaning in French: l'instinct de vie (source de toutes les pulsions humaines,...