05/28/2026
Freud believed humans are secretly driven by two powerful forces:
Eros and Thanatos.
Eros is the instinct for life.
Love, attraction, pleasure, intimacy, connection, and the desire to feel emotionally alive.
Thanatos is the opposite.
Destruction, anger, emotional chaos, and self-destructive behavior.
According to Freud, human beings constantly live between these two energies:
the need to love,
and the fear of pain.
That’s why attraction is not always logical.
Sometimes people are drawn to others because of unconscious emotions, hidden desires, emotional comfort, or psychological needs they don’t even understand themselves.
In the end,
Freud believed humans are controlled less by logic…
and more by emotions they never speak about.