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instinct: inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli; "the spawning instinct in salmon"; "altruistic instincts in social animals"

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id collapse: (psychoanalysis) primitive instincts and energies underlying all psychic activity; a card or badge used to identify the bearer; "you had to show your ID in order to get in"

blind impulse collapse

libido collapse: (psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire

impulse collapse: the act of applying force suddenly; "the impulse knocked him over"

sex drive collapse: a physiological need for sexual activity; "testosterone is responsible for the male sex drive"

sudden thought collapse

brain wave collapse

enlivened collapse: made lively or spirited; "a meal enlivened by the music"; "a spirited debate"; made sprightly or cheerful

intuition collapse: instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes); an impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong"

reflex action collapse

preconscious collapse

sexuality collapse

sensuality collapse: desire for sensual pleasures

dowry collapse: money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage

archetype collapse

long suit collapse: in a hand, the suit having the most cards

subconscious collapse: just below the level of consciousness

existent collapse: having existence or being or actuality; "an attempt to refine the existent machinery to make it more efficient"; "much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran"

alive and kicking collapse

dower collapse: a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband

automatism collapse: any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy)

superego collapse: (psychoanalysis) that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience

conscience collapse: conformity to one's own sense of right conduct; "a person of unflagging conscience"; a feeling of shame when you do something immoral; "he has no conscience about his cruelty"; motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions

long lived collapse

persona collapse: (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"

self collapse: your consciousness of your own identity; a person considered as a unique individual; "one's own self"; (used as a combining form) relating to--of or by or to or from or for--the self; "self-knowledge"; "self-proclaimed"; "self-induced"

speciality collapse

automatic writing collapse

brainstorm collapse: try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it

viable collapse: capable of life or normal growth and development; "viable seeds"; "a viable fetus"

ego collapse: (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind; an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others

metier collapse: an occupation for which you are especially well suited; "in law he found his true metier"

pleasure principle collapse: (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality

makings collapse

strong point collapse

psyche collapse: (Greek mythology) a beautiful princess loved by Cupid who visited her at night and told her she must not try to see him; became the personification of the soul

carnality collapse

capability collapse: the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally; "he worked to the limits of his capability"; an aptitude that may be developed; the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment; "the capability of a metal to be fused"

anima collapse: (Jungian psychology) the inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious

conditioning collapse: a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment

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