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  • Potenz more than Trieb to describe the two wills, they are now structured as drive because of the way they are interlocked in, and can only be configured within, an Umtrieb (annular drive) whose rotary motion defines the very notion of drive as a positing caught and turned back upon itself, an "auto-castration" (103; 10: 143), or freedom that

    'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

  • (Trieb) in the System, but as a Fichtean and expansive form of will, geared towards an "object" and towards "self-interest," even if "blindly"

    'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

  • Auf philosophische Weise erleuchtet und gefoedert zu werden, hatten wir keinen Trieb noch Hang: ueber religioese Gegenstaende glaubten wir uns selbst aufgeklaert zu haben, und so war der heftige Streit franzoesischer Philosophen mit dem Pfafftum uns ziemlich gleichgueltig.

    Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918

  • Auf philosophische Weise erleuchtet und gefoedert zu werden, hatten wir keinen Trieb noch Hang: ueber religioese Gegenstaende glaubten wir uns selbst aufgeklaert zu haben, und so war der heftige Streit franzoesischer Philosophen mit dem Pfafftum uns ziemlich gleichgueltig.

    Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914

  • Trieb, 'says Wallenstein;' the very savage drinks not with the victim, into whose breast he means to plunge a sword. '

    Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre John Morley 1880

  • Novalis has said: "Die Philosophie ist eigentlich Heimweh, ein Trieb überall zu Hause zu sein."

    A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare George MacDonald 1864

  • 'In all the sports of Children, were it only in their wanton breakages and defacements, you shall discern a creative instinct (_schaffenden Trieb_): the Mankin feels that he is a born

    Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Drum in upstate New York, photojournalist Erin Trieb profiles one group of soldier's battle with PTSD.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2012

  • "Our mission is to develop a brand-building factory that grows the business, the brand equity and shareholder value of Craftsman, Kenmore and DieHard," Trieb said in an internal publication for Sears employees.

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • "Our mission is to develop a brand-building factory that grows the business, the brand equity and shareholder value of Craftsman, Kenmore and DieHard," Trieb reportedly wrote in an internal Sears publication obtained by the Chicago Tribune.

    TWICE - Digital Imaging News 2010

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