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Following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, a rereading of Freud’s 1915 text on war and death was necessary. In addition to the astonishing relevance of these remarks, it leads to a rethinking of the irruption of the desire to destroy in the intimate space.The impossibility of being human without harboring such a desire is associated with the impossible scenarios of choosing birth and avoiding one’s own death.The melancholic passing of time is combined with the narcissistic offense consecrated by the war. The negation of one’s own death at the unconscious level could, finally, be confirmed in contemporary social practices to make death disappear from the public space.