life principle

(eg. literature, hindu, love )

life principle Meaning of "life principle"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a hypothetical force to which the functions and qualities peculiar to living things are sometimes ascribed

Usage(s):

  • He maintained that the film was too schematic in counterposing the Freudian concepts of Eros, the life principle, and Thanatos, the death principle; and that it was too one-sided .
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