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Record 1 2025-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Applications of Automation
  • Collaboration with WIPO
CONT

[Engineers] have tried to mimic the bats’ biosonar systems by designing a veritable zoo of bat robots. Indeed, reproducing the biosonar abilities of bats in a man-made system would do far more than just satisfy a scientist's intellectual curiosity or an engineer's play instinct. Engineers working in the broad area of autonomous systems, in other words, machines that can act by themselves, have long dreamed of taking the capabilities of their creations to new levels, and bats could be just the right model system to accomplish this.

OBS

bat robot: designation validated by a Canadian subject-matter expert from Université Laval.

Key term(s)
  • SearchOnlyKey1

French

Domaine(s)
  • Automatisation et applications
  • Collaboration avec l'OMPI
CONT

La flexibilité de l'aile de chauve-souris est beaucoup plus grande que celle des ailes d'oiseaux ou d'insectes généralement étudiées jusqu'ici. La membrane en silicone ultrafine (56 µ [microns]) et très élastique de l'aile du robot chauve-souris forme une surface continue flexible. Pour s'affranchir des contraintes mécaniques, notamment de poids, elle n'est commandée que par un nombre réduit d'actuateurs qui reproduisent les degrés de liberté dominants (DOF) du vol de la vraie chauve-souris.

OBS

robot chauve-souris : désignation validée par un spécialiste canadien de l'Université Laval.

Key term(s)
  • robot chauvesouris

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Automatización y aplicaciones
  • Colaboración con la OMPI
CONT

[Los autores] describen el proceso de fabricación de un robot murciélago que utiliza SMA [aleaciones con memoria de forma] como actuadores y articulaciones flexibles. Dotan al robot [de] una alta flexibilidad en las alas, pero no logra realizar el movimiento real debido a sus 24 articulaciones independientes y la membrana que une a todas ellas […]

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Record 2 2022-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology
DEF

Psychic drive or energy, particularly that associated with the sexual instinct, but also that inherent in other instinctive mental desires and drives.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie
DEF

Énergie psychique sous-tendant les pulsions de vie, et, spécialement, les pulsions sexuelles.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicología
DEF

Suma total de las fuerzas e instintos que conducen a la búsqueda del placer sexual.

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Record 3 2021-09-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Human Behaviour
CONT

Most animals have a strong territorial instinct and develop a very distinctive attachment to certain areas such as pastures, buildings, water troughs and worn paths.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement animal
  • Comportement humain
CONT

La majorité des animaux ont un vif instinct territorial et s'attachent très fortement à certains endroits, notamment les pâturages, bâtiments, abreuvoirs et sentiers utilisés.

Spanish

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Record 4 2021-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Fish
  • Animal Reproduction
  • Aquaculture
CONT

... salmon are able to migrate thousands of miles... and subsequently returning as a mature fish to the exact location they were spawned. This incredible homing instinct(ability to return to their original location) is inherited by all salmon.

PHR

homing behavior, homing migration, return migration

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement animal
  • Poissons
  • Reproduction des animaux
  • Aquaculture
PHR

comportement de retour à la frayère, migration de retour

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Comportamiento animal
  • Peces
  • Reproducción de animales
  • Acuicultura
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Record 5 2020-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Yoga and Pilates
CONT

Muladhara or root chakra is symbolized by a lotus with four petals and the color red. This center is located at the base of the spine in the coccygeal region. It is said to relate to the gonads and the adrenal medulla, responsible for the fight-or-flight response when survival is under threat. Muladhara is related to instinct, security, survival and also to basic human potentiality. Physically, muladhara governs sexuality, mentally it governs stability, emotionally it governs sensuality, and spiritually it governs a sense of security. Muladhara has a relation to the sense of smell.

OBS

The seven chakras from the base of the spine to the crown of the head are muladhara (root chakra), swadhisthana (sacral chakra), manipura (solar plexus chakra), anahata (heart chakra), vishuddha (throat chakra), ajna (third eye chakra) and sahasrara (crown chakra).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Yoga et pilates
CONT

Le premier centre énergétique se nomme chakra racine ou chakra de la base. Son nom sanskrit est muladhara, il est représenté par un lotus aux 4 pétales rouges. Il est situé à la base de la colonne vertébrale, sous le sacrum et puise son énergie dans le champ magnétique de la terre. Cette énergie monte par les pieds et les jambes, vivifie le sang et les tissus de l'organisme.

OBS

Les sept chakras sont, du bas de la colonne vertébrale au sommet de la tête : muladhara (chakra racine), swadisthana (chakra sacré), manipura (chakra du plexus solaire), anahata (chakra du cœur), vishuddha (chakra de la gorge), ajna (chakra du troisième œil), sahasrara (chakra de la couronne).

Spanish

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Record 6 2018-07-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Statistics
OBS

Applied statistics are all around us. They provide companies, hospitals, media outlets, etc with the ability to make sound data-based decisions instead of relying on anticipated results or gut instinct.... Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. Application of statistical techniques is an essential part of decision making and study in a wide range of disciplines such as astronomy, biology, education, economics, geography, engineering, genetics, marketing, medicine, psychology, public health, and sports.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Statistique

Spanish

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Record 7 2018-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Incubators and Hatcheries
  • Poultry Production
CONT

When a farmer buys baby chicks in early spring, it is cold outdoors. Since the chicks are only one day old and are born with the instinct of crowding under the mother hen's wings to keep warm, they look for a place to keep warm.... The brooder stove is a substitute for the brooder hen. By means of electricity or natural gas, it gives off heat and the chicks crowd under it for warmth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Couveuses et éleveuses
  • Élevage des volailles
DEF

Appareil disposant d'un système de chauffage permettant d'élever les poussins obtenus par incubation artificielle des œufs.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Incubadoras y criadoras
  • Cría de aves
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Record 8 2018-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
CONT

Once a virus has been discovered, a user's first instinct is often to eradicate all occurrences of it. However, one should always endeavour to capture a virus sample for analysis, as this can be helpful to other sites infected with the same virus.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
CONT

Le réflexe d'un utilisateur, lorsqu'il découvre un virus, est souvent de chercher à en éliminer toutes les occurrences. Or, il faut toujours essayer de «capturer» un échantillon de virus pour l'analyser et ceci peut être utile pour d'autres sites contaminés par le même virus.

Spanish

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Record 9 2017-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pets
CONT

[The] scratching block will appeal to [the] cat's sense of touch allowing your furry pal to carry out the natural instinct to scratch, to prevent claws from breaking or being ripped out.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Animaux d'agrément
CONT

Proposé par [une] entreprise néerlandaise [...], le bloc à griffer [...] présente une silhouette de chien labrador. [...] Il est composé de polyester et drapé de cordes de sisal.

Spanish

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Record 10 2012-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
CONT

[Her] mental tenacity appears unsullied; her focus was immaculate, her killer instinct intact.

PHR

Concentration has wandered.

PHR

To lose concentration. To hold, interfere with one’s concentration.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
CONT

C'est une [athlète] impeccable dans sa technique et dont la concentration n'a connu aucune baisse de régime qui a ravi les honneurs du tournoi.

PHR

Pouvoir de concentration. Relâchement de la concentration.

PHR

Garder, maintenir sa concentration.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
CONT

[...] la atención sobre la pelota en ningún momento se puede perder; tanto es así que hay jugadores que dan saltitos; estos saltitos tienen una doble misión, la primera es mantener el cuerpo a punto, estar muy listos a la salida, poder arrancar en el momento en que adivinan la dirección de la bola, y otra es mantener una concentración sobre lo que hipotéticamente puede resultar.

PHR

Falta de concentración.

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Record 11 2012-02-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mountain Sports
DEF

[An] activity in which hillwalkers and mountaineers attempt to reach the summit of some collection of peaks, usually those above some height in a particular region, or having a particular feature.

CONT

At best peak bagging is a harmless activity deriving from the natural instinct of people to note their achievements in lists. This becomes true peak bagging when a walker decides to climb every hill within a given list, refuses to consider climbing hills not on the list and will happily climb such hills in any weather just to tick them off.

CONT

Peak Bagging. For many people the object of climbing is the summit. It can be an easy summit by the easiest route. "Peak baggers" often have little knowledge of climbing techniques and scarcely think of themselves as climbers.... Some do like to go quickly and "collect" as many summits as possible.

CONT

Among climbers the term peak bagger can be pejorative ... However, for the beginner, peak bagging can be both instructive and stylish.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de montagne
CONT

L’idée de collectionner les sommets dépassant l’altitude symbolique de 4000 mètres est apparue à la fin du XIXème siècle. Compte tenu de la structure complexe de la montagne, une liste est établie, permettant de distinguer les vrais sommets des sommets secondaires, antécimes, épaules, bosses, pointes et gendarmes divers qui dépassent cette limite.

Spanish

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Record 12 2011-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sexology
DEF

The libidinal energies arising from the oral, anal, urethral, or genital parts of the body.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sexologie
CONT

La source des pulsions partielles orales, anales, urétrales, génitales peut être aisément reconnue dans les zones érogènes privilégiées.

Spanish

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Record 13 2011-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology
DEF

The instinct to preserve and reproduce the self.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie

Spanish

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Record 14 2011-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personality Development
DEF

The urge to dominate the love object.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Développement de la personnalité
DEF

Pulsion dont le but, actif, consiste à dominer l'objet externe par la force.

Spanish

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Record 15 2006-12-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Behaviour
DEF

Tendency to move in or form a group with others of the same kind.

Key term(s)
  • gregarism

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement animal
DEF

Tendance à vivre en groupe.

CONT

Les poissons, les oiseaux et les bivalves pratiquent, sans le savoir, le grégarisme, mot scientifique pour le moutonisme, un comportement courant dans le règne animal.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Comportamiento animal
DEF

Tendencia de ciertas especies animales a vivir en grupo.

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Record 16 2006-10-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 17 2006-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Fish
DEF

The faculty possessed by fish of returning to their stream or lake of origin to spawn.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement animal
  • Poissons
DEF

Chez les poissons, comportement héréditaire qui les fait retourner à leur frayère natale pour s'y reproduire.

Spanish

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Record 18 2004-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
DEF

An innate pattern of behavior, elicited by certain stimuli and fulfilling certain basic biological functions for the organism. The term refers both to the drive and to the activity

OBS

A term not currently in good standing in psychology because of its connotation. (Ok if used according to directions).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
DEF

Ensemble complexe de réactions extérieures, déterminées, héréditaires, communes à tous les individus d'une même espèce et adaptées à un but dont l'être qui agit n'a généralement pas conscience.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicología (Generalidades)
DEF

Comportamiento innato [...] que consiste en un sistema complejo de reflejos que se activa como respuesta a un estímulo.

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Record 19 2002-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
CONT

Most people, once hurt, will try to avoid a situation that threatens such hurt again. It is the self-preservation instinct, no different than touching fire, feeling it burn and becoming averse to touching it again.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
CONT

Les pulsions d'autoconservation désignent les grands besoins vitaux de l'organisme ou besoins du moi.

Spanish

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Record 20 2000-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mental Disorders
  • Psychology (General)
CONT

... it was presumed that deflection of the death instinct onto objects in the external world constituted the aggressive instinct.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Troubles mentaux
  • Psychologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 21 2000-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Characterology
  • Psychology (General)
DEF

The tendency to acquire or to hoard possessions. In the older systems of psychology acquisitiveness was treated as an instinct.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Caractérologie
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
DEF

Nom donné par les psychologues à l'instinct qui porte l'homme à acquérir.

Spanish

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Record 22 2000-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 23 1994-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
CONT

... she is somewhat avoidant, in that here dependency needs are experienced by herself as painful and intense, yet in her primary relationships she learned to expect lack of support and rejection ... Her abilities to relate in primary relationships such as in a couple thus remained impaired as a result of her childhood ....

CONT

... dissatisfaction with primary relationship maladjustment... the failure of a primary relationship with a mother who is incapable of leading the child to the threshold of Oedipus... review of the theory of aggression reveals that Freud's death instinct based theory has been questioned by many theorist-clinicians who increasingly have seen the need to account for a primary nondestructive aspect of aggression as well as a primary relationship between aggression and adaptation... [Source : PASCAL database].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
CONT

[La] confiance s'acquiert dans l'enfance, dans les toutes premières relations mère-enfant, dans un vécu verbal et non verbal (basic trust).

Key term(s)
  • toute première relation
  • toutes premières relations

Spanish

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Record 24 1994-04-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial and Economic Psychology
CONT

Championed by a group of biologists led by John Tooby and Leda Cosmides, the emerging discipline of evolutionary psychology sees the human mind as a set of specific instincts that are trained by experience and learning, but are triggered by outside stimuli. This is very different from the old view that instinct and learning were mutually exclusive. These instincts are what constitutes human nature : for instance, the instinct to like sweet food... whatever form it comes in; the instinct to learn language with a specifically human grammar, whatever its vocabulary; the instinct to trade favors with other trusted individuals, a sense of social credit and debt; an instinct to form interpretations of what is going on in other human minds....

CONT

Economics and evolutionary psychology both focus on the similarities among individuals of all races: the fact that humans of all colors and creeds are motivated by the same preferences, desires and goals - to accumulate the means to consume, find a mate, have children, be famous or popular, and so on. This view holds that the differences between people are the result of different environmental triggers acting on the same genetic nature.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie industrielle et économique

Spanish

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Record 25 1992-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux
DEF

Un témoin qui ne comparaît pas mais qui n'est pas inventé de toute pièce pour un alibi

Spanish

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Record 26 1987-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
DEF

In psychoanalytic psychology, the latent instinctive impulse toward death and the destruction of anything that threatens to disturb the status quo.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
CONT

[...] S. Freud oppose la pulsion de vie [...] à la pulsion de mort [...] qui tendrait [...] à détruire les assemblages et à réduire totalement les tensions [...], c'est-à-dire à ramener l'être vivant à l'état inorganique antérieur, qui est aussi celui du repos absolu.

Spanish

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Record 27 1987-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Public Law
CONT

Most writers maintain that States have as one of their fundamental rights the right of self-preservation, that is, a legal right to exist. They claim that the right of self-preservation is a primary, inherent, fundamental right, so fundamental that it takes precedence overall other rights. But there are authorities who deny the validity of this theory.... According to them this right means only that a State is entitled to protect itself and may attempt to maintain its independence. "The truth is, "says Brierly, "that self-preservation is not a legal right but an instinct... "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international public
CONT

Tout État ([...]a le droit d'exister, de se maintenir, de se développer. Ce droit qu'on appelle droit de conservation, est le premier des droits des États.

Spanish

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Record 28 1987-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
OBS

The "we-self" in borderline patients: manifestations of the symbiotic self-object in psychotherapy. (Medline data base)

OBS

Use of the word "object" to refer to persons derives from the commitment of psychoanalysts to an instinct theory. The object through which instinctual gratification is held to be achieved is usually a person, an aspect of a person or a symbolic representation of a person toward which the subject directs its actions or desires.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
OBS

L'auteur nous parle des parents en tant qu'auto-objets préstructuraux des troubles de cohésion. (base de données Pascal)

Spanish

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Record 29 1986-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Philosophy (General)
DEF

a viewpoint or system of belief emphasizing the use of intuition, instinct, felling, or faith rather than a reliance upon, reason or holding that the universe is governed by irrational, volitional, or mysterious forces instead by reason.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Philosophie (Généralités)
DEF

Attitude qui soutient que le fondement de la connaissance que l'homme a du monde n'est pas redevable de la raison, et qu'il est donc inexplicable.

OBS

Attitude qui soutient que les valeurs qui sous-tendent toute conduite humaine échappent à la raison, totalement ou partiellement.

Spanish

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Record 30 1986-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Husbandry

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des animaux
OBS

LING 1963 142

Spanish

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Record 31 1985-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sexology
DEF

the tendency toward pleasure seeking, particularly through achieving sexual aims and objects.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sexologie
CONT

Chez l'homme, l'instinct sexuel déborde le rôle animal de la reproduction de la race.

Spanish

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Record 32 1984-08-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie
OBS

la fibre paternelle n'est pas très développée chez lui

Spanish

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Record 33 1984-06-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
DEF

Movement that is carried out without foresight or plan or purpose, that is not the result of instinct or habit, that is not directed toward any goal and that is not elicited by any specific cueing stimulus.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 34 1984-03-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
DEF

the person, object, or situation which elicits instinctive action.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 35 1983-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

the divine proportion is the ideal relation between two magnitudes, expressed numerically as 1/0, 618=1, 618/1 and demonstrated in many masterpieces of different arts, applied consciously or, more often, by instinct

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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Record 36 1981-12-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
DEF

all impulses that serve the self-preservation of the individual.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
DEF

pulsion d'autoconservation, dont le moi se sert pour se défendre, grâce à l'énergie qu'il investit sur lui-même.

Spanish

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Record 37 1981-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Behaviour

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement humain
DEF

expression utilisée par Freud pour conférer un contenu empirique singulier à la pulsion de mort.

Spanish

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Record 38 1981-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
DEF

an instinct which does not appear until some time after birth or until development has reached a certain level.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
DEF

Instinct ne se manifestant qu'à un stade plus ou moins tardif du développement: c'est le cas des instincts sexuels (...)

Spanish

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Record 39 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel and Job Evaluation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Évaluation du personnel et des emplois
OBS

économique (42)

Spanish

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Record 40 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 41 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Beekeeping
  • General Vocabulary

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des abeilles
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 42 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
OBS

The energy of the warded-off instinct in displaced to any other impulse that is associatively connected with the repressed one... Such substitute impulses are known as derivative(often unconscious).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
OBS

[l'inconscient] tend à faire resurgir dans la conscience et dans l'action des productions en connexion [ Ces dérivés du refoulé sont à leur tour l'objet de nouvelles mesures de défense.]

Spanish

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