The Denial of Death

At my parents house the poster for this record is on my bedroom wall: [image error] The poster the added text that "Some ideas are poisonous, they can fuck up your life, change you and scar you." This poster came to mind pretty often while reading The Denial of Death. I hope this isn't going to come as......more

Do you feel like your days fly by? Or, that a month disappears into another month? How does a lifetime get swallowed up? Why do we live with regret? Aren’t we just living like all the other people? Why do we take risks with our health and with our financial resources? What is it all about? After read......more

The Denial of Death straddles the line between astounding intellectual ambition and crackpot theorizing; it is a compendium of brilliant intellectual exercises that are more satisfying poetically than scientifically; it is a desperately self-oblivious and quasi-futile attempt to resurrect the ruins......more

Going to school when I did, it’s hard to conceive of how important the psychoanalytic project was for so much of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The influence of Freud and the subsequent schools of psychology developed by his students spread into virtually every discipline, from literary ana......more

"The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive." —Ernest Becker The sloppy latticework of gnarled tree branches anchors the foreground while Devlin and......more