Sigmund Freud's Struggle Between Eros And Thanatos

Sigmund Freud describes humans as struggling between two drives, Eros and Thanatos or more plainly the life and death instincts, the death instinct is most interesting because Freud states that it stems from the human molecular desire to return to our original state of nothingness. Perhaps it is this death instinct that drives us into nothingness our desire not to act being a manifestation of the instincts affect on our body, acting in balance with Eros or the life instinct, it would be reasonable to speculate that those who are able to resist the death instinct would in turn be more productive and happy people, but to say that all of us are equally capable of battling in the war that wages within ourselves would be a fool's gamble, in fact

“Walls, columns, and architraves of living fire blazed effulgently around the spot where I seemed to float in air;” (Beyond The Wall Of Sleep pg 17) it was in the dreamscape that the Doctor was eventually given the ability to see what awaits the soul beyond death. It is as described by Bronson in his lecture a Transcendent event, and it is this concept that seems to reappear dating as back as the Bhagavad Gita, and somehow managing much like the major religions of our time to reappear in different areas of the world between people with no relation to each other. “The embodied self which exists in the body of everyone is eternally free from harm” (24) although the loss of one's body does not destroy the soul it is also easy to speculate that the soul is not without its weakness for just as ones can have dreams of floating through time and the infinite cosmos, one can have dreams of death and destruction and it was also in the story Beyond The Wall Of Sleep that the readers were informed of a dark entity that our souls are constantly chasing with the goal of destroying it. “Escaping forever, and preparing to follow the accursed oppressor even unto the uttermost fields of ether, that upon it might be wrought a flaming