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"[[Instinct]]"
corresponds to a specific program of action for a species
that is genetically transmitted
(and theoretically independent of individual experience)
[[Lacan]] follows [[Freud]] in distinguishing the [[instinct]]s from the [[drive]]s, and criticizes those who obscure this distinction by using the same English word ("[[instinct]]") to translate both [[Freud]]'s terms (''[[Instinkt]]'' ''[[Trieb]]'').<ref>{{E}} p.301</ref>
[[Jacques Lacan]] -- following [[Sigmund Freud]] -- distinguishes the [[instincts]] from the [[drives]].
[[Lacan]] follows [[Freud]] in distinguishing the [[instincts]] from the [[drives]].
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"[[Instinct]]" is a ''[[biological]]'' concept and belongs to the study, field, of animal ethology, the psychology of animal behavior.
"[[Instinct]]" is a purely ''[[biological]]'' concept and belongs to the study of animal ethology.
# A powerful motivation or impulse.
# An innate capability or aptitude:
==Quotes==
<blockquote>"The whole flux of our mental life and everything that finds expression in our thoughts are derivations and representatives of the multifarious instincts [drives] that are innate in our physical constitution."<ref>[[Freud|Freud, Sigmund]]. My contact with Josef Popper-Lynkeus. 1932. SE, 22: 219-224. p. 221.</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>"[T]he "instinct [drive]" appears to us as a concept on the frontier between the mental and the somatic, as the psychical representative of the stimuli originating from within the organism and reaching the mind, as a measure of the demand made upon the mind for work in consequence of its connection with the body."<ref>[[Freud|Freud, Sigmund]]. Instincts and their vicissitudes. SE, 14: 109-140. 1915. pp. 121-122.</ref></blockquote>
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