life instinct

noun

1. See under death instinct.

noun

1. suicidal tendency or inclination; predisposition to self-destruction.
2. Psychoanalysis. an impulse to withdraw or destroy, working in opposition to forces urging survival and creation (life instinct).

noun

1. psychoanal the instinct for reproduction and self-preservation

n.

1. In psychoanalytic theory, the instinct of self-preservation and sexual procreation.

n.

1. A primitive impulse for destruction, decay, and death, manifested by a turning away from pleasure, postulated by Sigmund Freud as coexisting with and opposing the life instinct.Thanatos