The attributes of life were at some time evoked in inanimate m | EN EREBOS PHOS
The attributes of life were at some time evoked in inanimate matter by the action of a force of whose nature we can form no conception. It may perhaps have been a process similar in type to that which later caused the develop- ment of consciousness in a particular stratum of living matter. The tension which then arose in what had hitherto been an inanimate substance endeav- ored to cancel itself out. In this way the first instinct came into being: the instinct to return to the inanimate state. Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle
