In Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the 'death drive' (German: Todestrieb) is the drive toward death and self-destruction. In the introductory work "Jenseits des Lustprinzips", Freud used the plural "death drives" (Todestriebe) much more frequently than in the singular. The Greek word Thanatos is also sometimes used to convey similar conceptual meanings, in opposition to Eros.
This is a type of crossover space at the boundaries of consensus reality and meta-fiction, outlined in the slipstream (genre) novel “The Raw Shark Texts” (2007) by Steven Hall, characterized by a bittersweet interplay of abandonment with possibility, a subjective experience often encountered in urban exploration.
As a quick search will reveal, older OCR scans by Google Books tend to misidentify “condescension” as this non-word, due to some rotation issues distinguishing u|n.
I invented this word on the basis that it returned no results when searched for on Google in quotations. Now it does of course, because the list I've added it to (snowsilence) has since been indexed.
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snowsilence commented on the word Todestriebe
In Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the 'death drive' (German: Todestrieb) is the drive toward death and self-destruction. In the introductory work "Jenseits des Lustprinzips", Freud used the plural "death drives" (Todestriebe) much more frequently than in the singular. The Greek word Thanatos is also sometimes used to convey similar conceptual meanings, in opposition to Eros.
May 28, 2018
snowsilence commented on the word poïesis
A more exacting transliteration of “poiesis”, from the ancient Greek “ποίησις”, (poetry/poem, 'a creation').
July 3, 2017
snowsilence commented on the word ethereum
Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality.
July 3, 2017
snowsilence commented on the word embrayage
A French word for the “clutch”. See also: crowbar of embrayage.
July 3, 2017
snowsilence commented on the word cælestium
A Latin adjective (genitive|plural) meaning " … of the heavens".
July 3, 2017
snowsilence commented on the word unspace
This is a type of crossover space at the boundaries of consensus reality and meta-fiction, outlined in the slipstream (genre) novel “The Raw Shark Texts” (2007) by Steven Hall, characterized by a bittersweet interplay of abandonment with possibility, a subjective experience often encountered in urban exploration.
July 3, 2017
snowsilence commented on the word condesceusion
As a quick search will reveal, older OCR scans by Google Books tend to misidentify “condescension” as this non-word, due to some rotation issues distinguishing u|n.
July 3, 2017
snowsilence commented on the word pafelorn
I invented this word on the basis that it returned no results when searched for on Google in quotations. Now it does of course, because the list I've added it to (snowsilence) has since been indexed.
July 3, 2017