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“If you read the incredible, I think, and unbelievably insightful book, Denial of Death by Ernest Becker, he feels that basically Freud was wrong…”
Why: It is an incredibly insightful book that challenges standard psychological views on basic human drives in relation to mortality.
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
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“passages from a book that will, I think, I'll mention once or twice in this Ernest Becker's Denial of Death.”
Why: It provides incredible and insightful explanations of how human bodily experiences and sex are tied to our denial of death.
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
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