5 sentences with 'instincts'
Example sentences and phrases with the word instincts and other words derived from it.
• « Ayurvedic nutrition responds to the instincts. According to this discipline of alternative medicine, a balanced diet should contain the six tastes or rasas: sweet, salty, bitter, spicy and astringent, so that the doshas receive all the information they need and resist any kind of disease. »
• « Bakunin believed that if his contemporary society was destroyed, the social instincts inherent in humanity would flourish and people would "naturally" build a better society. He was also the great champion of outcasts, bandits and the urban poor. »
• « According to the great Victorian psychologist Sigmund Freud, Victorianism was fundamentally based on the repression of natural instincts. »
• « Freud's theories revolved largely around sexual instincts and their repression; Freud invented several specific concepts such as the 'Oedipus complex', the idea that young boys sexually desire their mothers and fear their fathers' authority, and 'penis envy', the claim that girls are psychologically wounded by not having male genitalia, which he believed were fundamental to the human psyche. »
• « Joining a demonic cult represents giving free rein to the instincts, releasing what Jung called "the shadow". »