"instinct" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Freud considered that "the id, the whole person ... originally includes all the instinctual impulses ... the destructive instinct as well."
- This is an expression of 'cruel, brutal and destructive instincts, which lie dormant in individuals as relics of a primitive epoch'.
- Under such conditions the destructive, sadistic instincts of man, who is by nature a nomadic hunter, find themselves constricted and thwarted; they are therefore turned inward.
- Most Underworld Demons are entities of pure destructive instincts that cannot communicate with others.
- He argued that the life instincts (the erotic impulses) could be conceived of as being the chief influence for redirecting the destructive instincts of the individual.
- The Clintons' program, he writes, "confronted obstacles that said less about the plan's merits or demerits than about the destructive instincts of today's media."
- This was a case where workers should have been protected against their own destructive instincts.
- Paranoid anxiety can be understood in terms of anxiety about imminent annihilation and derives from a sense of the destructive or death instinct of the child.
- You have shown with irresistible clearness how inseparably the combative and destructive instincts are bound up with the amative and vital ones in the human psyche.
- "How can it be that we feel ashamed over the destructive instincts of others?"
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