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Death Wish (Noun)

Meaning

(psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die.

Classification

Nouns denoting goals.

Examples

  • His self-destructive tendencies led his analyst to suspect that he harbored a deep-seated death wish.
  • The patient's reckless behavior on the highway was seen as a manifestation of his unconscious death wish.
  • Freud's theories on the death drive proposed that all humans have an innate death wish that must be managed by the ego.
  • The artist's fascination with mortality was interpreted by some as a symptom of his own unacknowledged death wish.
  • The woman's series of ill-fated relationships and self-sabotaging choices were understood by her therapist to be a product of her unresolved death wish.

Synonyms

  • Thanatos
  • Death Instinct

Hypernyms

  • Urge
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