pulsion
See also: pulsión
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French pulsion, from Latin pulsio.
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pulsion (plural pulsions)
- (now rare) The act of driving forward; propulsion. [from 17th c.]
- 2020 [2019], Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 99:
- The same applies to the tempestuous rows within internet communities, where toxic pulsions of identification and disidentification generate passionate solidarities and sudden explosions of hostilities.
- (psychoanalysis) A subconscious drive or impulse. [from 20th c.]
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French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin pulsiōnem, from pulsus.
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Noun edit
pulsion f (plural pulsions)
- (psychology) drive, urge
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Further reading edit
- “pulsion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.