Becoming familiar with our more destructive drives is indeed a challenge, I prefer these days to live some what in the past, it seems that my brain is doing a sweep of my past and bringing up things from around 1 years old,, listening to a lot of music every day about 2 or 3 hours and taking some cannabis, kratom, wine, seems to be the culprit, and the fact that I'm get old and it is probably very natural.
Anyway being honest about our past the good and the bad takes some courage and by this one can get to know some of ones destructive drives as well as the more benevolent ones, the thing is IMO is to harness them, ying and yang to balance a person and make him more harmonious because he is aware or more aware of both drives. I see that as the goal. Of course the deeper we plummet the unconscious and the bigger fish we pull out of it and make conscious the more our chances to dip down into it and never come out, like a never ending samadhi, or consciousness gets so submerged into the unconscious that it is trapped forever.