“They just went and did it, leaving everyone to wonder why, wracking their brains for what they’d failed to recognize.”
After much research on the topic I have come to the conclusion that every human has a ‘life-wish’ and a ‘death-wish’. Under normal circumstances the ‘life-wish’ is more powerful than the ‘death-wish’. It is believed that a chemical imbalance that can occur at any time during one’s life, causes the ‘death-wish’ to become more powerful than the ‘life-wish’.
There is still extensive, ongoing research to try to find out why it happens. It seems to happen randomly in people from all walks of life.
Isn’t this just a fancy way of saying “the devil made him do it”.
Gustave Fechner(1801-87) developed a theory which states that every organism strives to attain stability, i.e., an equal distribution of energy within itself, a state of internal quiescence. The behavior of living organisms is therefore, essentially an attempt to reduce tension.
Freud called this the Nirvana principle, where the final goal is the complete extinction of desire. Then Freud goes one step further and claims that all desire seeks its own extinction.
Marcuse follow Freud in postulating two basic instincts that govern the behavior of all living organisms, the life instinct and the death instinct.The death instinct is innate. It is the drive toward the destruction of life and toward self-destruction.And the source of the drive is an escape from tension which is disturbing the state of quiescence.