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In [[Sigmund Freud|Freudian]] [[psychology]], '''Eros''', also referred to in terms of [[libido]] , libidinal energy or love, is the life instinct innate in all humans. It is the desire to create life and favours productivity and construction. Eros battles against the destructive death instinct of [[Thanatos (Freud)|Thanatos]] (death instinct or death drive).
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In ancient Greece the word Eros referred to love and the god of love. In his final theory of the drives, Sigmund Freud made Eros a fundamental concept referring to the life instincts (narcissism and object libido), whose goals were the preservation, binding, and union of the organism into increasingly larger units.
Eros the unifier is opposed to, and yet was blended into, the death instinct, an antagonistic force leading to the destruction, disintegration, and dissolution of everything that exists. "In this way the libido of our...
==See also==
*The Greek god [[Eros (god)|Eros]]
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