Freud considered that "the id, the whole person ... originally includes all the instinctual impulses ... the destructive instinct as well."

This is an expression of 'cruel, brutal and destructive instincts, which lie dormant in individuals as relics of a primitive epoch'.

Under such conditions the destructive, sadistic instincts of man, who is by nature a nomadic hunter, find themselves constricted and thwarted; they are therefore turned inward.

Most Underworld Demons are entities of pure destructive instincts that cannot communicate with others.

He argued that the life instincts (the erotic impulses) could be conceived of as being the chief influence for redirecting the destructive instincts of the individual.

The Clintons' program, he writes, "confronted obstacles that said less about the plan's merits or demerits than about the destructive instincts of today's media."

This was a case where workers should have been protected against their own destructive instincts.

Paranoid anxiety can be understood in terms of anxiety about imminent annihilation and derives from a sense of the destructive or death instinct of the child.

You have shown with irresistible clearness how inseparably the combative and destructive instincts are bound up with the amative and vital ones in the human psyche.

"How can it be that we feel ashamed over the destructive instincts of others?"