Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem of death drive as a natural constituent element of existence and its defining role for human and society as well as such the exaggerated neurotic death drive as the appetence to early death. In his research Suetin describes possible causes of such behavior based on the analysis of a particular case of autodestruction. The researcher also analyzes the tendencies of mass death drive in the modern society and prerequisites for the scientific and technical development and its influence on human and his future. Death drive is studied by the author in terms of classical psychoanalysis and Sigmund Freud's theory of instinctual drive and death and death instinct are analyzed from the point of view of philosophical anthropology, postmodernism and cultural studies. The author states that death drive is fundamental to life instinct which energy is presented as having active and passive forms. Life instinct is a natural movement of motivated energy and death instinct is an inert but inavoidable energy. The author also demonstrates how these drives reverse as a result of traumatic events experiened by human and deformation of development trends in the society. 

Keywords: the fear of death, society, unconscious, instinct, autodestruction, aggression, instinctual drive, Death, Life, clinical history

Abstract: The article reveals the issues of maternal destructiveness: the destruction is based on infantile and unsolved tragedy of children’s and parents’ relationships, the feeling of helplessness and dependence, impossibility to overcome the ‘bad’ object and inability to accept and cope with growing destructive impulses.

Keywords: psychology, maternal destructiveness, pregnancy, labour, death, female identity, maternal imago, deprivation, dependence, fear

Abstract: Philosophers and psychologists have always treated the topic of death with interest. They’ve also paid attention at a quite paradoxical phenomenon – human aspiration for death. The author of the article analyzed Freud, Fromm and Jung’s conceptions of death. Special attention is drawn at necrophilia as a psychological phenomenon.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, death, myth, culture, necrophile, biophile, war, technics, psychiatry

Abstract: The author of the article defined the range of images of irony and described how poetics of irony manifests itself in poetics of Eros. In the article Eros is interpreted as sickness or alcohol intoxication. It is noted that irony keeps the secret of the ‘self’.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, irony, poetics, humor, comic, tragic, wit, laughter, pretension, Eros, love

Abstract: Resume: this is the article of R. M. Brunswick, a famous American psychoanalyst and follower of Z. Freud. This article is the last one created in cooperation with Z. Freud.

Keywords: psychoanalysis, Freud, neurosis, Oedipus complex, preoedipal phase, libido

Abstract: Still being the part of the great theoretic inheritance, Zigmund Froid’s theory of narcissism has appeared to be far less popular with the society than the conception of psychosexual development or the theory of symbolism. This conception is revealed in Russian folk tales.