counterimpulse
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editcounterimpulse (plural counterimpulses)
- An impulse that runs counter to another impulse.
- 1921, Psyche and Eros[1]:
- If the presence of a counterimpulse were sufficient to determine a mistake all of us should and would be constantly making mistakes.
- 1982, Introducing Psychoanalytic Theory[2], page 119:
- In the conflict theory, there is an impulse or a motive, and an opposing counterimpulse or countermotive.
- 1988 November 11, Andrew Goodwin, “Reading: The Cultural Crash of '89”, in Chicago Reader:
- This counterimpulse tends to embrace everything difficult and European with juvenile zeal.