Sabina Spielrein and Freud's death drive

This discussion reminded me about Sabina Spielrein - Wikipedia, a person I have been fascinated with since I met John Kerr who eventually wrote a book about her 1993: Amazon.com: A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein. I see there is now a movie: Ich hiess Sabina Spielrein. Anyhow I find her persona and story deeply inspirational. She was perhaps the most impressive and tragic Russian Jewish la femme fatale that circled in Jung’s orbit (she was probably not only a patient but a lover). She was also influential on both men Freud and Jung. But what's pertinent to this conversation is that she is credited with ideas later developed by Freud in his theory of the death drive. From the Gallery of Russian Thinkers: Sabina Spielrein:

"She is remembered in the history of psychoanalysis as the author of world-famous work Die Destruktion als Ursache des Werdens (her Ph.D. thesis of 1912), which was basic for Freud's theory of the death drive... In her thesis Spielrein put for the first time one of the most difficult and important questions in analytic theory and practice, the question about the death drive, which arose through her research on masochism. There is an initial we-experience that is opposite to I-experience, and that is related to destruction of the 'I'. At the same time, the destruction of the self and regression into we-experience has positive results, because it intensifies social development and cultural progress. She concludes that destruction is the basis of further development. In any dissociation, we can find a cause of becoming."

In a superficial way I have to say that there are ideological parallels to the Chabad concepts of bittul (she was from Rostov and she was developing her ideas in 1912 simultaneously to Rashab and about ten years after Rashab went to see Freud in Vienna mentalblog.com: Sigmund Freud and Lubavitcher Rebbe RaSHaB). There is also the Holocausts and almost willing way that Jews were led to the slaughter, a subject addressed in John Kerr’s book in the context of Freud's theory of death drive. Sabina's husband, brother were killed by Stalin, Sabina and her two daughter were murdered by Nazis in Rostov, HYD.