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=====''Instinkt'' and ''Trieb''=====
The term '''''[[Instinkt]]''''' ("'''[[instinct]]'''") implies a relatively fixed and innate relationship to an object.
[[Freud]] normally uses the word '''''[[Instinkt]]''''' ("'''[[instinct]]'''") to refer to a relatively ''[[nature|fixed]]'' and ''[[nature|unchangeable]]'' set of [[instinct|behavioral patterns]] "peculiar to an animal species, varying little from one member of this species to another and unfolding in accordance with a temporal scheme which is generally resistant to change and apparently geared to a purpose."<ref>Laplanche, Jean and Pontalis, Jean-Bertrand. ''The Language of Psychoanalysis''. Karnac Books, 1996</ref>
'''''[[Trieb]]''''' ("[[drive]]") differs from '''''[[Instinkt]]''''' in that the [[drive]] is extremely variable, and [[development|develops]] in ways which are [[time|contingent]] on the life history of the [[subject]].
Unlike an [[instinct]], a [[drive]]
=====Need and Satisfaction=====
The '''''[[instinct]]''''' implies a [[biology|biological]] [[need]] which gives rise to an intermittent ''excitation'' or tension within the [[biology|body]] that can be ''discharged'' and thus [[desire|satisfied]]
The [[drive]], on the other hand, cannot be [[desire|satisfied]] and is characterized by the constancy of the pressure it exerts on [[consciousness]].
The [[drive]], on the other hand, is characterized by the ''constancy'' of the pressure it exerts on [[consciousness]], and so cannot be [[desire|satisfied]].
The [[drive]], on the other hand, is characterized by the ''constancy'' of the pressure it exerts on [[consciousness]], a ''constant force'' that can never be [[desire|satisfied]].
