Life and Death Wishes?

[Lark]

Whether its Freud's idea that there is Thanatos (spelling) as powerful as Eros or Libido and Death Wish or later ideas from evolutionary thinkers or neo-Freudians about biophilious personality types and necrophilious personality types do you think they have any merit?

 

[sassafras]

I loosely recognize the theory you're mentioning here by name, but I actually know very little about it. Would you mind giving us a brief run-down of what it is in your own words?

 

[Lark]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_drive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophilia

EO Wilson is the guy who I was thinking of besides Erich Fromm who developed the whole life instinct idea.