Death personified

Usage examples of thanatos.

Alalkomeneus and the expedition through the tunnel of Ophion to the secret room of Thanatos.

Thanatos began the long ascent to Olympos, the barely concious naiad over one shoulder and the brass cage clanging in his hand.

Although, as I will argue in the text, the central negative motivation of the Ego camps was Phobos, or the fear of the lower, in this particular objectifying stance their own Thanatos was at work.

From world-centric pluralism to divine egoism and biocentric sensory immersionat one with sentimental nature in my own self-reverberating feelingsthis was the other endgame of flatland holism, a morbid embrace driven by a Thanatos that, in the way of all deception, whispered always of the wonders of ever-shallower engagements.

Even though Freud doesn't see the Great Circle of Ascent and Descent, he of course makes use of what small segment of it he does understand: in psychoanalytic therapy, one engages in "regression in service of ego"that is, one descends back into a lower level that was alienated and split off by fear and anxiety (by Phobos), reintegrates that level by embracing it with love and acceptance (Agape), and thus releases that lower level from being a regressive pull, releases it from being in the grips of Thanatos, and allows it to rejoin the ongoing march of a higher identity and a wider love of others (Eros).

He hoped that brisance and debris would confuse the traces of his maneuvering near Thanatos Mi nor, prevent other ships from seeing where he'd gone.

The very framing of the Goddess in those terms denies Her ever-present creative attributes and buries them in rhetoric, and, as always in these reductive and retrogressive yearnings, the brutal hand of Thanatos is all over the corpse.

I'm rewriting that whole section -- Thanatos in Cloudcuckooland,' I'm calling it.

The new "dehumanizing humanism" was dehumanizing precisely because the fingerprints of Thanatos were all over the corpse.

If the shipyard on Thanatos Minor hadn't been controlled by human beings, Succorso wouldn't have tried to escape here from Enablement Station.

We have been tutoring Vita, and getting to know Muir and Griffith and Grissel, and looking at your wonderful pictures, and we had visits by Judge Scott and Thanatos.

Because it had been hived into the bleak rock of Thanatos Minor, a planetoid which sailed the vacuum a few million kilo meters inside the borders of forbidden space, it had little or nothing to fear from overt assault.

Perhaps Joshua encountered situations, di lemmas, complexities on Thanatos Minor which we did not fore see.

Calm Horizons and Tranquil Hegemony could probably dig him out, but only by blazing away at Thanatos Minor until the entire surface was slagged and the reactor in the heart of the rock reached meltdown temperatures.