Nouns denoting goals
- agromania
- an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
- onomatomania
- obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness
- charge
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- cacoethes
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- possession
- a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- Thanatos
- (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
- irrational motive
- a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
- acathexis
- (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual
- adience
- (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object
- wee small voice
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- score
- grounds
- psychic energy
- an actuating force or factor
- moral sense
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- wherefore
- the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
- irrational impulse
- a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
- phaneromania
- an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- sense of shame
- a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
- libidinal energy
- (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido
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