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Miscellaneous "Ernest Becker" links
Eugene Webb - “Eros and The Psychology of World Views”
Ultimately Becker found more inspiration in Otto Rank and Søren Kierkegaard than in Freud. From Rank in particular he took the idea of repression as “character armor,” a necessary “vital lie” used to keep terror at bay, and the idea of society as a hero system in which one seeks through symbolic projects to triumph over death. Becker's central assumption in all his work was that our hero projects enable us to feel immortal. In order to endure the terror of living in the ever-present face of death, we need world views that tell us life is more powerful than death and that we have a permanent place in the drama of its triumph.
http://www.city-net.com/~alimhaq/text/metaxischapter1.htm
Excerpt from "Escape From Evil" - Ernest Becker
Once the organism is satiated, this becomes its frantic all-consuming task, to hold onto life at any cost . . . this absolute dedication to Eros, to perseverance, is universal among organisms and is the essence of life on this earth.
http://members.aol.com/juliaaka/Becker.htm
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