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"In this way the libido of our sexual instincts would coincide with the Eros of the poets and philosophers which holds all living things together." <ref>Freud, 1920g, p. 50</ref>
The term <i>[[Eros]]</i>, understood as a [[life instinct]] [[antagonism|antagonistic]] to the [[death instinct]], appeared for the first time in <i>Beyond the Pleasure Principle</i>,<ref>1920g</ref> where [[Freud]] used it to establish a dynamic polarity that would define a new instinctual [[dualism]].
[[Freud]] wrote:
