They wish to suffer the sadist pleasure of dying in their dreams. The psychoanalyst concludes that every human has an innate death drive, which life instincts strongly suppress. Freud’s observation of World War I soldiers affirmed his theories.
But, an inward execution of death drive leads a person to self-harm and suicide. Moreover, when an individual manifests this death drive in their behavior, it results in aggression. He further asserts, “the aim of all life is death.” In the same essay, Freud theorizes that death and destruction entice human beings. Later, modern psychoanalysts dubbed them Eros and Thanatos, the two Greek gods representing life and death. One’s inclination toward either of the drives reflects their cognitive perception. Every human personality is made of life and death drives which stand for positive and negative outlooks. In a 1920 essay, ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle,’ Freud derives a concept of two innate drives of life and death.
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