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Author - Ernest Becker
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obliviousness
[Man] literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, personal....
philosophy
People were always ready to yield theirwills, to worship the hero, because they were not given a chancefor....
symbolic prisons
And so we see the paradox that evolution has handed us. If man is the only animal whose consciousness....
creativity
The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality....
existentialism
the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith....
truth
Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out....
human nature
In this view, man is an energy-convertingorganism who must exert his manipulative powers, who must damage....
death
Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awarness, or he spends his time shopping, which is....
philosophy
We called one's lifestyle a vital lie, and now we can understand better why we said it was vital: it....
mental health
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life,....
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