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n. 1 (context now rare English) The act of driving forward; propulsion. (from 17th c.) 2 (context psychoanalysis English) A subconscious drive or impulse. (from 20th c.)
Usage examples of "pulsion".
SPIRIT OF THE YEARS Hold what ye list, fond believing Sprites, You cannot swerve the pulsion of the Byss, Which thinking on, yet weighing not Its thought, Unchecks Its clock-like laws.
Each of these works hallows the authority of feeling, seeks to show how feeling is the primary pulsion and cohesion of life, with enormous moral and political consequences.
The diagnostic project has quite simply exploded into a dreamscape ruled by libido and pulsion, and we see just how subversive literature as an art form can be: it depicts a series of events, but we sense that they are merely a cover, a facade for other, darker forces.
The boy drew near the bed with a dragging step, the old corn- pulsion pulling at his senses.