Enzian and Tchitcherine

[David Morris]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Paul Mackin
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> Freud proposed an unconscious "death instinct" or "death drive" shortly after WW I in "Beyond the Pleasure Principle." Many people started calling it a "death wish" however.

It's really a very simple concept, the desire to be free of tension, a
reaction against the "reality principle."  Sort of an ultimate temper
tantrum.