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Elan vital   /ˈilən vˈaɪtəl/   Listen
Elan vital

noun
1.
(biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms.  Synonyms: life force, vital force, vitality.






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"Elan vital" Quotes from Famous Books



... Unconscious (or subconscious), to the vast area of mental activity which exists outside the circle of our awareness. In doing so it has grasped at the very roots of life itself, has groped down to the depths where the "life-force," the elan vital, touches our individual being. What this may entail in the future we can only dimly guess. Just as the discovery of America altered the balance of the Old World, shifting it westward to the shores of the Atlantic, so the discovery and investigation of the Unconscious seems destined to shift ...
— The Practice of Autosuggestion • C. Harry Brooks



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