counterimpulse
nounEtymology From counter- + impulse.
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An impulse that runs counter to another impulse.
- If the presence of a counterimpulse were sufficient to determine a mistake all of us should and would be constantly making mistakes.1921, Psyche and Eros:
- In the conflict theory, there is an impulse or a motive, and an opposing counterimpulse or countermotive.1982, Introducing Psychoanalytic Theory, page 119:
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- This counterimpulse tends to embrace everything difficult and European with juvenile zeal.1988 November 11, Andrew Goodwin, “Reading: The Cultural Crash of '89”, in Chicago Reader: