Death drive

death drive means not acting for pleasure or one's own good."Todd McGowan 2.29K subscribers" "5,133 views. May 8, 2020."
rFreud's concept of the death drive as the psychological counterpart of the biological theory expressed in R. Ehrenberg's 1923 book, which postulates that the life-death process consists of the increasing and irreversible structuralization of vital space. Taken singly, aggression (a form of the death drive), ambivalence, and narcissism have each been essential to man's evolutionary survival and cultural development. The energic interplay of these factors, however, creates destructive forces. Doubt is expressed that the aggressive-narcissistic triumphs of history can be replaced in group activity by substitute gratifications. Related discussions examine Freud's drive-defusion theory and present a new view of self-preservation and orality. (59 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
== r ==
* Death; Drive; Will-to-death; Desire to die; Suicide; Antinatalism
* Pleasure principle;
* Dysfunction; Dysregulation; Misanthropy