sexual instinct

is triggered not by the partner, the particular individual, but by an image — the type.

Recast in definition form from: “… existence of the sexual partner, the particularity of one individual …”

may be the effort of living substance, torn into particles at its birth, to reunite — chemical affinity persisting in the flesh.

Recast in definition form from: “… instincts, in which the chemical affinity of inanimate matter persisted …”

as the neurotic imagines it is a caricature, an enemy endowed with unbelievable powers and wiles so that it is worth attacking.

Recast in definition form from: “Her feminine sexual nature becomes her enemy and this enemy she endows with unbelievable powers and wiles. In this way there arises in the emotional life of the neurotic, a caricature of the sexual instinct which it is really worth while attacking.”

is the pupil that will not be educated: it keeps working by the pleasure principle and often overrules reality, to the harm of the whole organism.

Recast in definition form from: “… ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle …”

matters so much to us not for the species' sake but because procreation is the individual's real achievement, his highest expression of power.

Recast in definition form from: “… the species, but arises because procreation is the real achievement …”

is how a creature that knows it cannot last hands life on as it leaves — generations threaded like pearls whose matter keeps changing while the form stays.

Recast in definition form from: “If we, in imagination, hasten on this succession, we shall see that the matter is constantly changing in the whole row just as it is changing in each pearl, while it retains the same form: we will then realise that we have only a quasi-existence.”

when undirected is base because it wants everyone and serves the species only in quantity; love concentrated on one person serves its quality and so turns noble.

Recast in definition form from: “On the other hand, mere sexual instinct is base, because, without individuation, it is directed to all, and strives to preserve the species merely as regards quantity with little regard for quality.”

are the true life instincts: conservative like all the others, but conservative to a higher degree, because what they cling to and bring back is life itself.

Recast in definition form from: “… sense as the other instincts in that they bring back …”

sexual instinct, n.Definitions

sexual instinct