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Definition of Death wish
1. Noun. (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die.
Category relationships: Analysis, Depth Psychology, Psychoanalysis
Generic synonyms: Impulse, Urge
Definition of Death wish
1. Noun. (psychology) A desire, especially subconscious, for the death of oneself or of someone else. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Death Wish
Literary usage of Death wish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Man's Unconscious Spirit; the Psychoanalysis of Spiritism by Wilfrid Lay (1921)
"Belief and Wish The belief in disembodied spirits is the direct result of the
unconscious death-wish on the part of the individual having this belief. ..."
2. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1920)
"The death-wish, once fully felt and realized in consciousness, may, in neuropathic
children set up a prolonged and morbid corrective process to strangle it, ..."
3. Religion and the New Psychology: A Psycho-analytic Study of Religion by Walter Samuel Swisher (1920)
"One of the most interesting illustrations of the constant recurrence of the
death-wish is found in that ancient philosophic poem, the Book of Job. ..."
4. Senescence, the last half of life by Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"In general we have only a life wish for our friends and reserve the death wish
for enemies. Even in the most highly evolved emotional lives this is perhaps ..."
5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1920)
"Here, too, is found another characteristic of much of his writing: the death
wish, this time directed against the second wife. ..."
6. The Technique of Psychoanalysis by Smith Ely Jelliffe (1918)
"The death-wish, once fully felt and realized in consciousness, may, ...
Only relatively late is the death-wish generally directed towards enemies and the ..."
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