Sentences with phrase «freudian impulses»

Be who you want — be a prince (or murder one), drive the fastest car in the world (or crash it)-- these borderline - Freudian impulses to exercise our lizard - brains are at the heart of open - world gaming.

To consider sexual attraction as a Freudian impulse that must be released is the route to addiction and less freedom to love.

Not exact matches

For example, the Protestant doctrine that we are all sinners is reflected in the Freudian - Marxist behaviorist - positivist claptrap claiming that there is no virtue, that all our actions arise from dark psychic urges, exploitative class greed or biological impulses — which supposedly proves that talk about good and evil, right and wrong, and certainly saintliness is illusory.

In the philosophical anthropology of Max Scheler, as in the Freudian psychoanalysis from which it in part derives, this division of spirit and impulse is regarded as basic to man's nature.

Another Freudian premise that reappears in current science is that our minds are inherently conflicted, the terrain of a struggle between instinctual impulses and inhibitory mechanisms.

In Freudian theory, the id is the division of the psyche that is totally unconscious and serves as the source of instinctual impulses and demands for immediate satisfaction of primitive needs.

There's the Freudian «libido» view of desire, in which sexual impulses forever try to pop out and get you in to trouble.