Was the search for food, I had often wondered, an instinctual impulse or was it learned?

The loss concerns pleasurable experience, which derives from the immediate release of a direct instinctual impulse.

The unconscious operates according to the pleasure principle alone - there are no values exercising restraint over instinctual impulses.

Yoga provides others with techniques for reducing desires and instinctual impulses, and happiness is therefore a little easier to attain.

Freud's theory highlights the way in which social institutions, such as the family, religion, education, law, and political institutions, repress instinctual impulses in people.

These ideas will be discussed later in more detail, but here it is important to note the interrelationship which Freud posits between the two sets of instinctual impulses.

Freud considered that "the id, the whole person ... originally includes all the instinctual impulses ... the destructive instinct as well."

The 'external world' can certainly include the social and cultural systems that Parsons wishes it to, but to eradicate all instinctual impulses in the personality system is to distort Freud beyond recognition.

The primary process has two characteristics, both arising from the motility of cathexis, or the capacity of an instinctual impulse to switch from one object to another in trying to achieve gratification.

On the one hand, the customary inhibitions and externally imposed social controls characterizing modern urban life dilute the intensity of individual pleasure derived from the gratification of deep-seated instinctual impulses.

Sigmund Freud believed that the id represents biological instinctual impulses in humans, such as aggression (Thanatos or the Death instinct) and sexuality (Eros or the Life instinct).

"Whereas the old view made it natural to suppose that anxiety arose from the libido belonging to the repressed instinctual impulses, the new one, on the contrary, made the ego the source of anxiety".

Punitive games are in fact also fulfillment of wishes, though not of wishes of the instinctual impulses but of those of the critical, censoring, and punishing agency in our controlling minds.

Freud reinterprets the phenomenon of the loss of a sense of moral responsibility that crowds can show in terms of a crowd allowing the individual to be able 'to throw off the repressions of his unconscious instinctual impulses'.

This piece of behaviour is a combination of an inner impulse and an outer stimulus, and flight does avail against the impulse, whereas for Freud flight is of no avail against an inner instinctual impulse.

While Brenner favored a cool, aseptic analytic technique, and opposed the idea that the transference could be separated off from the so-called working alliance, he also challenged the mechanical use of the analysis of defences without consideration of the instinctual impulses involved.

Freud for his part used the same term as the goal for the patient in psychoanalysis: 'As we analyse...the great unity which we call his ego fits into itself all the instinctual impulses which before had been split off and held apart from it.

I suppose you could describe the play as Mr. Guare's "Equus," in that it prizes the instinctual impulses of a pagan age, rues the cowardice and neuroticism of our own times, and asks how we go about recapturing a sense of wonder and wholeness again.

To remove the possibility of this type of conflict, which is, at root, a conflict between the id's instinctual impulses and the society's values which have been internalized by the person concerned, is to undermine both the foundations of Freud's work and the theory he built up to explain and conceptualize it.