death instinct

Again, Trump is dominated by the death instinct which includes pleasure in being destructive.

The Greeks, like Sigmund Freud, grasped that war is the purist expression of the death instinct, the desire to exterminate all systems of life, including, ultimately, our own.

Nations in terminal decline embrace, as Sigmund Freud understood, the death instinct.

When I was younger, I was really into Freud, and the entry point for me was an interest in what he calls “the death instinct.”

A cult is really about the death instinct.