SOME VIEWS ON THE MANIFESTATION OF THE DEATH INSTINCT IN CLINICAL WORK

摘要

The author argues that the postulation of the instinctual drive towards death can be seen as an attempt to account for the manifestation of a destructive psychological force that is palpably present in many of our patients. He discusses some of the experiences, activities and aims that reflect this destructive psychic force, and the conscious and unconscious gratification that is intrinsically bound up with it.