this book is an xelant depiction of the way freuds death instinct operates on the un unconscious level when ppl are condemd to survive in a cold, crisp and callous human existance dat never adapts to human asperations ... when life is devoit of warmth and tenderness, the distructive tendencies in human nature take route and rob the life instinct of all its strength, leaving the induvidual a helpless aoutomation of flesh and blood.