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nirvana principle

nirvana principle

in classical psychoanalytic theory, the tendency of all instincts and life processes to remove tension and seek the stability and equilibrium of the inorganic state—that is, death. This is the trend of the death instinct, which Sigmund Freud believed to be universal.

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