noun
Psychoanalytic term referring to a fundamental motivational force, such as the life drive or death drive. Used in academic or clinical contexts.
フロイトは人間の欲動を生の欲動と死の欲動に分けた。
Freud divided human drives into the life drive and the death drive.
欲動理論は精神分析の基礎
Drive theory is one of the fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis.
Compound of 欲 (desire, want) and 動 (movement, action), likely coined as a translation of the psychoanalytic term 'drive' (German: Trieb).