sexual instinct

I suppose that art is a manifestation of the sexual instinct.

Certainly not her sexual instinct: that kind of girl is quite often sexually frigid.

It can become linked with the sexual instincts, and turned on to external, loved objects.

She also portrays men's irresponsibility by using their sexual instincts.

What could be more perfect than to have it happen in an age-old place where nature and sexual instinct reign?

In this context his concept of instinct, especially as applied to the sexual instincts, is useful.

During this phase the sexual instincts (or libido) of a boy cause the child to desire his mother.

To the Editor: There is no doubt that basic human sexual instincts and behavior shape culture in many ways.

For him the 'id' represents basic, primordial drives and sexual instincts.

Sigmund Freud, who promoted the view that the sexual instinct is the driving force behind all human action.

East and West become one, in faceless misery fuelled by sexual instincts.

Fuseli's painting has been considered representative of sublimated sexual instincts.

The sexual instinct, the libido, was declared to be the central motivation and the exclusive source of energy for all human activity.

The excessively coercive nature of appeal to strong sexual instincts to sell products or promote media.

He has valued the sexual instinct more than action, while others kill and maim to allow his debased relationship to continue.

Hustler appeals to the brain as well as the sexual instincts."

If Ted trusted his sexual instincts, Marion was deeply unsure of hers.

Jung seemed to have lost the emphasis on the body, and especially on the sexual instincts, which Freud retained in all his work.

Can the concept of sexual instinct be rescued from the charge of logical circularity?

She's really pretty wholesome, as are all of the lively young things in "Babes," which is not to say they are without sexual instincts.

The idea of basic sexual instincts, which are present from birth and which may also be unconscious, was retained in all Freud's theories.

Here she identified film 'narrative' with Freud's ego and spectacle with the sexual instincts of the id.

Positive education, channelling the sexual instinct towards socially approved goals, needed to counter older, negative moralisms.

Her preternaturally powerful sexual instincts were her first, her primal addiction.