Carl, Freud observed humans have two subconscious drives. One is eros (source of word erotic), the drive to live. The second is thanatos, a drive to die, a subconscious death wish. Freud observed that reason (ego) and social tradition (super ego) around us serve as a check on thanatos, when reason (ego) and social tradition (super ego) work well. When reason and tradition weaken, look for self-destructive behaviors. For example, alcoholics and drug addicts, in effect, have a death wish for they defy logic and social wisdom accumulated by the human race over centuries. It is amazing to observe the death wish in our own society, for more and more it acts in irrational ways and in defiance of human wisdom accumulated over centuries of hard experience. Pick your examples of such death-wish behaviors.
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