Nouns denoting goals

kleptomania

an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive

 

agromania

an intense desire to be alone or out in the open

 

necrophilism

an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies

 

acathexis

(psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual

 

occasion

reason

 

onomatomania

obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness

 

signal

any incitement to action

 

cathexis

(psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object

 

why

the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'

 

hedonism

the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle

 

irresistible impulse

an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid

 

phaneromania

an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)

 

compulsion

an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will

 

scruples

motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions

 

disincentive

a negative motivational influence

 

small voice

an inner voice that judges your behavior

 

urge

an instinctive motive

 

irrational motive

a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic

 

logomania

pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking

 

Thanatos

(psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die