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   [[Jacques Lacan]] -- following [[Sigmund Freud]] -- distinguishes the [[instincts]] from the [[drives]]. [[Jacques Lacan]] -- following [[Sigmund Freud]] -- distinguishes [[instincts]] from [[drives]].   "[[Instinct]]" is a ''[[biological]]'' concept and belongs to the study (, field) , of animal ethology (, the psychology of animal behavior.                        "[[Instinct]]"  is a ''[[biological]]'' concept  and belongs to      "[[Instinct]]"  corresponds to a specific program of action for a speciesthat is genetically transmitted (and theoretically independent of individual experience)               ==Quotes== <blockquote>"The whole flux of our mental life and everything that finds expression in our thoughts are derivations and representatives of the multifarious instincts [drives] that are innate in our physical constitution."<ref>[[Freud|Freud, Sigmund]]. My contact with Josef Popper-Lynkeus. 1932. SE, 22: 219-224. p. 221.</ref></blockquote> <blockquote>"[T]he "instinct [drive]" appears to us as a concept on the frontier between the mental and the somatic, as the psychical representative of the stimuli originating from within the organism and reaching the mind, as a measure of the demand made upon the mind for work in consequence of its connection with the body."<ref>[[Freud|Freud, Sigmund]]. Instincts and their vicissitudes. SE, 14: 109-140. 1915. pp. 121-122.</ref></blockquote> <blockquote><ref></ref></blockquote> <blockquote><ref></ref></blockquote>