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In times when violence and destruction have increased, people's efforts to understand this tendency have also increased. Perhaps with a similar effort, Freud theorized the concept of death drive based on his thoughts on war neuroses after World War I. Freud suggested that the death drive exists in every living thing, even in the inanimate, material level. Although Freud's theorization of death drive has been used from time to time to explain human tendencies toward war and violence, it is only after M. Klein's contributions that destructiveness and death drive are referred to as identical. In Klein's theoretical approach, destructiveness is an inner part in which a person has to project, repress, transform or confront and is almost an instinct rather than an impulse. However, Laplanche has payed attention to the distinction between impulse and instinct and offered some oppositions to the linear connections between death drive and destructiveness. Following the Laplanche's thoughts Penot offered a new dualism instead of Eros and Thanatos; Eros and Anteros. Penot suggested that this new dualism could give a better comprehension to “binding” and “unbinding” functions which were also found in former dualism. Roussillon put emphasis on narcissism rather than death drive for explaining the destructivity of human being. Also Denis suggested that death drive concept is insufficient to explain destructiveness and referring to first drive theory of Freud, Denis offered a new drive concept. In the light of these theorizations this text is aimed to develop a better understanding for “humanious” destructiveness.