death instinct in English

noun
1
an innate desire for self-annihilation, thought to be manifest in the conservative and regressive tendency of the psyche to reduce tension.
Freud considered that aggression was derived from the death instinct being redirected towards the external world.
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1. In fact, it is the death instinct in the form of the imbalance between id, ego and superego that drives Gallimard to his final suicide.