Eric Berne, who was a pupil of Federn's, was among those to research some form of this desire: The destructive urge activates hostility and hate, blind anger, and the uncanny pleasures of cruelty and decay.
Eric Berne, who was a pupil of Federn's, made extensive use of the term in his pre-Transactional Analysis study, "The Mind in Action" (1947). In Berne's words,' the destructive urge activates hostility and hate, blind anger, and the uncanny pleasures of cruelty and decay.