Nouns denoting goals
- Thanatos
- (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
- libidinal energy
- (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido
- dipsomania
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- irrational motive
- a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
- inducement
- a positive motivational influence
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
- logomania
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- egomania
- an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- sense of duty
- a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
- charge
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- trichotillomania
- an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
- reason
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- irrational impulse
- a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
- morality
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- onomatomania
- obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness
- necrophilism
- an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
- urge
- an instinctive motive
- obsession
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
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