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As they were about to land, Onassis turned to Caroli and said, Professor, do you know the meaning of the Greek word thanatos?
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As they were about to land, Onassis turned to Caroli and said, Professor, do you know the meaning of the Greek word thanatos?
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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
Iranian leader: Obama administration 'wicked,' 'untrustworthy'
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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.
Louises commented on the word thanatos
Thanatos advances, Eros retreats. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
February 29, 2012