Ernest Becker Frases y Citas
Ernest Becker: Frases en inglés
"The Present Outcome of Psychoanalysis", p. 189
The Denial of Death (1973)
“Mother nature is a brutal, red in tooth and claw, who destroys what she creates.”
The Denial of Death (1973)
"Human Character as a Vital Lie", p. 56
The Denial of Death (1973)
The Denial of Death (1973)
Fuente: "Human Character as a Vital Lie", p. 66
"Psychology and Religion: What Is the Heroic Individual?", pp. 282–283
The Denial of Death (1973)
"Psychology and Religion: What Is the Heroic Individual?", p. 255
The Denial of Death (1973)
"The Psychoanalyst Kierkegaard", p. 87
The Denial of Death (1973)
The Recasting of Some Basic Psychoanalytic Ideas
The Denial of Death (1973)
The Recasting of Some Basic Psychoanalytic Ideas
The Denial of Death (1973)
"The Recasting of Some Basic Psychoanalytic ideas", p. 26
The Denial of Death (1973)
"The Human Condition: Between Appetite and Ingenuity", p. 1
Escape from Evil (1975)
“People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves.”
"The Spell Cast by Persons—The Nexus of Unfreedom", p. 158
The Denial of Death (1973)
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal?”
The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to I have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression—and with all this yet to die. It seems like a hoax, which is why one type of cultural man rebels openly against the idea of God. What kind of deity would, create such complex, and fancy worm food?
"The Psychoanalyst Kierkegaard", p. 87
The Denial of Death (1973)
"The Recasting of Some Basic Psychoanalytic ideas", p. 26
The Denial of Death (1973)
Fuente: The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man (1962), p. 27
"The Present Outcome of Psychoanalysis", p. 196
The Denial of Death (1973)
"A General View of Mental Illness", p. 213
The Denial of Death (1973)
We called one’s life style a vital lie, and now we can understand better why we said it was vital: it is a necessary and basic dishonesty about oneself and one’s whole situation. This revelation is what the Freudian revolution in thought really ends up in and is the basic reason that we still strain against Freud We don’t want to admit that we arerevelation is what the Freudian revolution in thought really ends up in and is the basic reason that we still strain against Freud. We don’t want to admit that we are fundamentally dishonest about reality, that we do not really control our own lives. We don’t want to admit that we do not stand alone, that we always rely on something that transcends us, some system of ideas and powers in which we are embedded and which support us. This power is not always obvious. It need not be overtly a god or openly a stronger person, but it can be the power of an all-absorbing activity, a passion, a dedication to a game, a way of life, that like a comfortable web keeps a person buoyed up and ignorant of himself, of the fact that he does not rest on his own center. All of us are driven to be supported in a self-forgetful way, ignorant of what energies we really draw on, of the kind of lie we have fashioned in order to live securely and serenely. Augustine was a master analyst of this, as were Kierkegaard, Scheler, and Tillich in our day. They saw that man could strut and boast all he wanted, but that he really drew his “courage to be” from a god, a string of sexual conquests, a Big Brother, a flag, the proletariat, and the fetish of money and the size of a bank balance.
Human Character as a Vital Lie
The Denial of Death (1973)
Psychology and Religion: What Is the Heroic Individual?
The Denial of Death (1973)
The Denial of Death (1973), The Present Outcome of Psychoanalysis
“All religions fall far short of their own ideals.”
Fuente: The Denial of Death (1973), The Present Outcome of Psychoanalysis, p. 204
They push themselves to maximize this feeling. As philosophers have long noted, it is as though the heart of nature is pulsating in its own joyful self-expansion. When we get to the level of man, of course, this process acquires its greatest interest. It is most intense in man and in him relatively undetermined—he can pulsate and expand both organismically and symbolically. This expansion takes the form of man’s tremendous urge for a feeling of total “rightness” about himself and his world. This perhaps clumsy way to talk seems to me to sum up what man is really trying to do and why conscience is his fate. Man is the only organism in nature fated to puzzle out what it actually means to feel “right.”
Fuente: The Denial of Death (1973), The Spell Cast by Persons—The Nexus of Unfreedom
The transference-object is then a natural fetishization for man’s highest yearnings and strivings. Again we see what a marvelous “talent” transference is. It is a form of creative fetishism, the establishment of a locus from which our lives can draw the powers they need and want. What is more wanted than immortality-power? How wonderful and how facile to be able to take our whole immortality-striving and make it part of a dialogue with a single human being. We don’t know, on this planet, what the universe wants from us or is prepared to give us. We don’t have an answer to the question that troubled Kant of what our duty is, what we should be doing on earth. We live in utter darkness about who we are and why we are here, yet we know it must have some meaning. What is more natural, then, than to take this unspeakable mystery and dispel it straightaway by addressing our performance of heroics to another human being, knowing thus daily whether this performance is good enough to earn us eternity. If it is bad, we know that it is bad by his reactions and so are able instantly to change it.
Fuente: The Denial of Death (1973), The Spell Cast by Persons—The Nexus of Unfreedom
