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单词 Thanatos
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Definition of Thanatos in English:

Thanatos

noun ˈθanətɒs-ˌtäs
mass noun
  • (in Freudian theory) the death instinct.

    (弗洛伊德理论中)自我毁灭的本能;死的愿望。常与EROS 相对

    Often contrasted with Eros
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was attracted to a mixture, as Epstein puts it, of Eros and Thanatos.
    • Here was Norman O. Brown's vision of Eros and Thanatos translated into brilliant novelistic terms.
    • Surely that's necessary, but as Freud pointed out almost a century ago, Thanatos and Eros are hard to keep apart.
    • However, he argues further that if Freud is correct, the balance to Thanatos is Eros, or the love of life.
    • Danger and death greet the poet's questing desire to excavate the lower reaches of the mind: Thanatos looms large in this writing.

Origin

From Greek thanatos 'death'.

Definition of Thanatos in US English:

Thanatos

noun-ˌtäs
  • (in Freudian theory) the death instinct.

    (弗洛伊德理论中)自我毁灭的本能;死的愿望。常与EROS 相对

    Often contrasted with Eros
    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, he argues further that if Freud is correct, the balance to Thanatos is Eros, or the love of life.
    • He was attracted to a mixture, as Epstein puts it, of Eros and Thanatos.
    • Danger and death greet the poet's questing desire to excavate the lower reaches of the mind: Thanatos looms large in this writing.
    • Here was Norman O. Brown's vision of Eros and Thanatos translated into brilliant novelistic terms.
    • Surely that's necessary, but as Freud pointed out almost a century ago, Thanatos and Eros are hard to keep apart.

Origin

From Greek thanatos ‘death’.

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