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instinctIn ethology, behaviour found in all equivalent members of a given species (for example, all the males, or all the females with young) that is presumed to be genetically determined. Examples include a male robin's tendency to attack other male robins intruding on its territory and the tendency of many female mammals to care for their offspring. Instincts differ from reflexes in that they involve very much more complex actions, and learning often plays an important part in their development. |
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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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