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Psychology and Psychotechnics
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Avalyan, S.A. On life and death

Abstract: The article deals with the psychological aspects of death. The problem of death is one of the fundamental problems affecting the limiting basis of life. The instinct of destruction is functioning in an every living being and it attempts to lead one to its death, bringing life to the original condition of the inanimate matter. The instinct of death is transformed into an instinct of destruction only when it is directed to objects. The living being retains its own life by destroying someone else’s. But some part of the death instinct remains to act within a living organism.


Keywords:

psychology, life, death, culture, symbol, immortality, transcendence, therapy, religion, suffering.


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