thanatos

As they were about to land, Onassis turned to Caroli and said, Professor, do you know the meaning of the Greek word thanatos?

American Legacy

As they were about to land, Onassis turned to Caroli and said, Professor, do you know the meaning of the Greek word thanatos?

American Legacy

Some call thanatos "the death wish," to "go out in a blaze of glory," mental state suggested in the last days of Applewhite in Heaven's Gate, Jim Jones at Jonestown, and Koresh at Waco

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This one evokes a kind of thanatos–a sense that the end is so close one might just as well give up to it and be taken.

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The Skull's villainy goes beyond the Nazi origin to become an archetype of the death impulse or "thanatos", the ruthless use of power to either oppress or kill.

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The ancient Greeks eventually came to use "thanatos" as a generic word for "death."

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When the novel came out in September we lauded its abundant pathos, along with its many servings of "hubris, nemesis, thanatos and even a comical dollop of misbegotten eros."

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They are the ones with the wicked thoughts on their mind. thanatos

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There is pathos aplenty in Jack Gantos's new novel for readers ages 10 to 15, along with hubris, nemesis, thanatos and even a comical dollop of misbegotten eros—all the elements of great drama, in other words, set in one boy's calamitous summer vacation, in 1962, in a fading western Pennsylvania town.

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I asked Kitano --- which the translator nicely translated for me as Freud's thanatos.

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