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plural pulsions
(now rare) The act of driving forward; propulsion. quotations
The same applies to the tempestuous rows within internet communities, where toxic pulsions of identification and disidentification generate passionate solidarities and sudden explosions of hostilities.
2020 , Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine, Verso Books, page 99
(psychoanalysis) A subconscious drive or impulse. examples