Destructive instinct

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The drive to destroy is a sub-form of the death drive postulated by Sigmund Freud and is therefore a term that comes from psychoanalysis .

In his drive theory, Freud assumed that there are two different primary drives that are innate in humans. These are the life and death instincts. While the life instinct ensures self- and species preservation, Freud assumes that people, because of the death instinct, strive to dissolve and return to the "primordial, inorganic state" "( Sigmund Freud :). According to Freud, this is The death instinct is directed against oneself, the destructive instinct is directed against other people and objects and manifests itself through aggression, which, according to Freud, is also reflected in a weakened form in sadomasochism .

Freud writes:

“The idea continued that a part of the drive turns against the outside world and then emerges as the drive to aggression and destruction. The drive itself would thus be forced into the service of eros in that the living being destroyed other things, animate and inanimate, instead of its own self. "

- Sigmund Freud :

See also

• Drive theory
• Death instinct

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Sigmund Freud: The drive to death and destruction. In: The discomfort in culture. 1930, accessed April 12, 2019 .