death instinct
death wish
Thanatos

Would you say," he asked, "that disappointment is inevitable, like the death instinct?

This is what happens when the death instinct takes hold of the super-ego and turns on the ego (77).

Later he came to think the death instinct was more important.

Just the same he cried: "There is a death instinct!"

"It has to do with death instincts, Joe."

"So you know what a death instinct is."

This is experienced as coming from the outside, but ultimately derives from the projection out of the death instinct.

The death instinct was in there with all the other instincts.

He was here on business, not to discuss the death instinct.

He thus found his way to his celebrated concept of the death instinct.