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instinct noun affinity, appetitus, aptitude, aptness, automatic reaction, bent, fitness, inborn proclivity, innate inclination, innate proclivity, intuition, native tendency, natural sense, natural tendency, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, reflex accion, tendency, untutored intelligence See also: caliber, feeling, flair, gift, proclivity, sense, tendency How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He walks the listener briskly through the life and evolving ideas of Freud, using, with definitions, the vocabulary that has insinuated itself into the popular lexicon: id, ego, and superego: narcissism, aggression, repression, paranoia, free association, transference and countertransference; unconscious and subconscious; sex, the death instinct, and dream interpretation. In a 1943 manuscript entitled "The Pattern of Organic Life in America," Smith noted: "All monumental architecture is an objectification of the death instinct. This movie is about the death instinct manifesting itself in middle-aged criminals who have knocked themselves out, and the outlaws, of course, are neither imperialistic nor ideological. |
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