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Freud originally believed that pleasure was the guiding principle in human action. Towards the end of his writing, he started believing there was an opposition to the pleasure drive. This is called the death drive or Thanatos, it represents an idea that all humans have an innate desire for self-destruction and death. Think of the soldier who longs to return to trench warfare
Freud himself hated the concept but found it an unavoidable conclusion. To this day it is one of the more despised theories.
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>>2963190
I think a better analysis is that the Nazi rise to power made every non-socialist intellectual very, very depressed in the 30's.
Can you imagine these new guys come to power and start removing your Jew university buddies from their posts, oh and if you don't open every class with a heil Hitler they'll get you fired too?
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>>2963594
Intellectuals are bourgeois swine they deserve the gas...
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>>2963636
And you deserve the helicopter ride my friend.
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>>2963190
I think the term "Ashes to ashes, Dust to dust is appropriate"
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>>2963190
This was only speculation though as he said. I think that´s the point where he became a philosopher. This seems to be influenced by Schopenhauer and his denying of will and of course by Nietzsche and his theory of leading the aggression to the outside, so it can´t "unleash the beast" inside, Nietzsche said all intellectual persons are cruel to themselves. He was influenced by them long before.
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