 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."4 Robert Jay Lifton used the term "psychic numbing...  Coping with Stress: Effective People and Processes - Seite 77herausgegeben von - 2001 - 336 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
 | Daniel Leviton - 1991 - 396 Seiten
...enigma of his or her personal value on the one hand and his or her fate on the other. The deepest human need is "to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation" (Becker, 1973, p. 66). yet living fully makes one more and more conscious of one's fate. It is no longer... | |
 | James N. Lapsley, Brian H. Childs, David W. Waanders - 1994 - 292 Seiten
...developing and maintaining the "character armor" that is a shield against the reality of human nnitude. "The irony of man's condition is that the deepest...annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive."11 In order to flee from the anxiety of death, we hide... | |
 | James L. Crenshaw, Mercer University - 1995 - 632 Seiten
...under the sun is burdensome to me; for everything 4Ibid., 41. Cf. Ernest Becker's observation that "the irony of man's condition is that the deepest...annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive" (The Denial of Death [New York: Free Press, 1973] 66).... | |
 | Melvin Kimble, Susan H. McFadden - 2002 - 500 Seiten
..."sense of ending" (Kermode 1 968). Ernest Becker's (1973) classic work The Denial of Death noted that "the irony of man's condition is that the deepest...annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive" (66). But if we cannot deny death, we will somehow take... | |
 | Maxine Hancock - 2001 - 164 Seiten
...religious faith as the best hope for both acknowledging the reality of death and yet living beyond it. "The irony of man's condition is that the deepest...annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive," he says early in his book. "After reviewing the contributions... | |
 | Roger Reid Jackson, John J. Makransky - 2000 - 424 Seiten
...the tragedies that the rest of us are better at repressing: death, meaninglessness, groundlessness. "The irony of man's condition is that the deepest...annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive" (Becker: 66). If the autonomy of self-consciousness is... | |
 | Terry D. Cooper - 2006 - 240 Seiten
...to Neurosis is the way of avoiding nonbeing by avoiding being. — Paul Tillich The irony of man 's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the cinxietv of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from... | |
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