Elan Vital can refer to:

• élan vital, a philosophical term coined by Henri Bergson in 1907 - roughly translated as "vital impetus" or "vital force"
• Elan Vital (organization), a nonprofit group formed in the United States, active from 1971 to 2010
• Élan Vital (album), an album by the music group Pretty Girls Make Graves
• Elan Vital, a partially sentient machine from the anime series Melody of Oblivion

For other meanings, see Elan Vital (disambiguation)

Élan vital was coined by French philosopher Henri Bergson in his 1907 book Creative Evolution, in which he addresses the question of self-organisation and spontaneous morphogenesis of things in an increasingly complex manner. Elan vital was translated in the English edition as "vital impetus", but is usually translated by his detractors as "vital force". It is a hypothetical explanation for evolution and development of organisms, which Bergson linked closely with consciousness - with the intuitive perception of experience and the flow of inner time.