I found my way here after putting "Freud" and "Nine Inch Nails" into Google. Crashinghero, up there (five years ago) defines Freud's death drive as the desire to "take apart what has been put together." Actually (and I haven't read very much, so you might want to check out "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" for yourself) the Freudian death drive is the opposite; the desire to put together what has been taken apart: namely, the complete ego (as the child believes that the mother is a part of him and the rest of the world is an extension of himself). He wants to become God and own all through annihilating himself, a recurring theme in Reznor's music.
I found my way here after putting "Freud" and "Nine Inch Nails" into Google. Crashinghero, up there (five years ago) defines Freud's death drive as the desire to "take apart what has been put together." Actually (and I haven't read very much, so you might want to check out "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" for yourself) the Freudian death drive is the opposite; the desire to put together what has been taken apart: namely, the complete ego (as the child believes that the mother is a part of him and the rest of the world is an extension of himself). He wants to become God and own all through annihilating himself, a recurring theme in Reznor's music.