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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Distinguish between the life instincts & the death instincts. How do they motivated behavior?

In Freud’s system, mental representations of internal stimuli, such as hunger, that drive a person to take certain actions. He grouped the instincts into two categories, the life instincts and the death instincts. The distinguish between the life and death instincts are below-

Life instincts:
1. The life instincts serve the purpose of survival of the individual and the species by seeking to satisfy the need for food, water, air and sex.
2. The life instincts are oriented toward growth and development.
3. The psychic energy manifested by the life instincts is the libido.
4. The libido can be attached to or invested in objects, a concept Freud called cathexis.
5. Freud regarded sex as our primary motivation.

Death instincts:
1. The death instinct compels us to destroy, conquer and kill.
2. Death instincts is the aggressive drive, describe as the wish to die turned against objects other than the self.
3. Freud developed the notion of the death instincts late in life, as a reflection of his own experience
4. Death instinct focus that people have an unconscious wish to die.

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