Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes it possible for higher psychical activities, scientific, artistic or ideological, to play such an important part in civilized life. If one were to yield to a first impression, one would say that sublimation is a vicissitude which has been forced upon the instincts entirely by civilization. But it would be wiser to reflect upon this a little longer. In the third place, finally, and this seems the most important of all, it is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct, how much it presupposes precisely the non-satisfaction (by suppression, repression or some other means?) of powerful instincts. This cultural frustration dominates the large field of social relationships between human beings; we know already that it is the cause of the antagonism against which all civilization has to fight.
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We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by far the more conspicuous and accessible to study.. The second class of instincts was not so easy to point to; in the end we came to recognize sadism as its representative. On the basis of theoretical considerations, supported by biology, we put forward the hypothesis of a death instinct, the task of which is to lead organic life back into the inanimate state; on the other hand, we supposed that Eros.. Aims at complicating life and at the same time, of course, at preserving it. Acting in this way, both the instincts.. Would be endeavouring to re-establish a state of things that was disturbed by the emergence of life. The emergence of life would thus be the cause of the continuance of life and also at the same time of the striving towards death; and life itself would be a conflict and compromise between these two trends.
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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
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By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest
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Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love
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Style is primarily a matter of instinct.
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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
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It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
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The first thing I did when he pulled out the gun is try to take it from him. It was just kind of like instinct. I just tried to point it away from my head and get control of it.
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Our natural instinct was to put things online that were public.
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Mortgage lending is an opportunistic business and when business declines, the instinct is to consolidate to become more efficient, and that is what we are seeing.
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I guess you have to have John Pilger. With his tan, his Byronic<br/> haircut, his trudging priestly delivery and his evident self-love, your main instinct is<br/> to flip right over to BBC1..
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When you see them in the streets, they're very much just alcohol fueled madness. And none of these guys are trained fighters. There's very few prizefighters that go out and get involved in this. Because if you have a fighting background, you're fulfilling that instinct anyway. You don't need to go out looking for it on the streets. These are generally guys that just drink a lot of beer. It's more about actually adrenalin I think than the fighting itself. It's a huge adrenalin rush.
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They both have a killer instinct. They hate to lose and they always bring it on meet days.
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It'd be a good feeling. You've got to have that killer instinct to put a team out when you have them down.
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It's an experience thing. He's got a great set of skills and physically he's got everything but he's still 20 years of age. His natural instinct is to stay on his feet and offload the ball and that will take a while to change.
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I've been going on gut instinct. I've just tried to be somebody the kids can lean on, and thankfully they've let me lean on them, too.
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A coward is a man in whom the instinct of self - preservation acts normally
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We spent our 20s together and we hit 30 and went 'Wait, wait, wait! Is this everything? Is this our life forever?',.. I don't know if the biological clock thing was thrown in too, [but] I knew I wanted to have a family so I think there was a sort of natural instinct in all of us to take a break.
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Autistic children who go missing are almost always found dead in a ditch or at a lake. They get frightened of new things. Their instinct might be to hide in a small, dark place.
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If Molly sees a lake, her instinct is to run into it. She would just keep going if no one stopped her. That would be an important function of the dog.
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The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.
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Most groups, I think, would have been taking their foot of the gas at this point. But we have the exact opposite instinct. We are flooring this rock 'n' roll band, and we're just interested to see where we will end up.
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The instinct to preplan has been around for a long time.
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Those old streetscapes didn't present a tidy appearance -- it was a real syncopation of signs and storefronts with neon and flashing lights -- and I think the planners of the '60s looked down on that kind of environment,.. The instinct was to clear everything out and start afresh. There were good things about that, but it was also done at a real cost to the existing street life.
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