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French: pulsion; German: Trieb

Instinkt and Trieb

Freud normally uses the word Instinkt ("instinct") to refer to a relatively fixed unchangeable set of behavioral patterns common to a given biological specifies.

Instincts are characteristic of animals, and are biologically defined.

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-[[Freud]] normally uses the word '''''[[Instinkt]]''''' to refer to a relatively ''[[nature|fixed]]'' set of [[instinct|behavioral patterns]], which are [[biology|biologically]] defined and peculiar to "animal species, varying little from one member of this species."
+[[Freud]] normally uses the word '''''[[Instinkt]]''''' ("'''[[instinct]]'''") to refer to a relatively ''[[nature|fixed]]'' ''[[nature|unchangeable]]'' set of [[instinct|behavioral patterns]] common to a given [[biology|biological]] specifies.
 ''[[Instinct]]s'' are characteristic of [[nature|animals]], and are [[biology|biologically]] defined.