Definition of "pulsion" []

• The act of driving forward; propulsion. (noun)

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• "Between these circular fibers (the cricopharyngeal muscle) and the oblique fibers of the inferior constrictor muscle there is a weakly supported point through which the esophageal wall may herniate to form the so-called pulsion diverticulum."
• "Classical art has its own temptations and sins; as Maritain hints, it may obscure the originating sense of congruence or confluence, the 'pulsion' which stimulates formal composition, by over-insistence on an abstract rigour of structure."
• "In Maritain's terms, it is an imaginative movement that takes hold of a 'pulsion', a connection or rhythm: something unites the grandmother and the criminal, enables the grandmother to recognise some sense in which she is not only part of the same family as the Misfit but his parent, part of what has made him who he is."