Whereas Freud himself never named the aggressive and destructive energy of the death drive (as he had done with the life drive, "libido"), the next generation of psychoanalysts vied to find suitable names for it.
Kým Freud samotný nikdy nepomenoval agresívnu a ničivú energiu pudu smrti ako to urobil pri pude života („libido"), nasledujúca generácia psychoanalytikov súperila v hľadaní vhodného pomenovania pre ňu.