7 Lessons from The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

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In today’s book review and summary we take a closer look at Ernest Beckers classic The Denial of Death. This is a psychology book that will blow your mind. I hope you enjoy some of the key lessons and takeaways that I share The Denial of Death in this short book review.
In The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker talks about the vital lie. This is the lie that we tell ourselves in order to cope with the terrible fact that we are just worms in the dirt-mortal and insignificant.
The Denial of Death also touches on the paradoxical nature of human beings. One the one hand we are all so limited and animal-like, yet our minds are limitless and godlike it the way it can conjure up the most fantastic ideas with our imagination.
Are we gods with anuses?!
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Комментарии : 62

@BookLabBjorn 2 года назад

Subscribe or you deny yourself great book reviews every Thursday!

@kwahujakquai6726 3 месяца назад

I've read this book over a dozen time in the past 8 years, and have learned something new each time. Becker's books; the Birth and Death of Meaning, and Escape from Evil, are also extremely insightful.

@startalker5100 3 года назад

just finished reading this book and i must say it left me with this gnawing need to really examine my life and the foundations of my current character but i don't think i've yet built up the courage to fully engage myself in this exercise cos i might not like the outcome

@BookLabBjorn 3 года назад

Your comment reminds me of an Instagram post I did about this book back in the day where I started the caption with: “Disclaimer: This book might trigger an existential crisis.” . It seems like there was more truth to that statement than I first imagined. 😬

@transcendingthedyad5663 2 года назад

The Denial of Death is an amazing existencial phenomenological book that takes the premises of heroism and death and all the corolaries of the heroic to show perfectly how the divine paradox ties us to an anxiety that's always pushing us towards the good desire and what's almost "fated" that we should meet and not turn our back on. I love this book beyond measure.

@cdrew2 2 года назад

The last 2 paragraphs of chapter 3 were so enlightening to me. For so long I've struggled to become "socialized", especially post-pandemic and I think I finally get it. If someone told me before I read this book that I needed to stop trying to control my sex in order to relieve it of its determinism and to sublimate my body-sexual Oedipal character, I would be totally lost. But thanks to Becker's concise interpretation of psychoanalysis, I think I can understand myself a little better in this absurd world.

@vijrumbhanam9200 Год назад

Please explain once more. I didnt get you.

@FiveFigsDigital 3 года назад

I read it at Brown as required reading for a class called "Problematic Heroism" in 1977. I still think about it all the time.

@BookLabBjorn 3 года назад

I have never heard of it before. It might be something for me to look into 👍🏻

@stanponkin9238 3 года назад

Thank you for recommendation, Björn!

@MarioNoghani 3 года назад

Love this book! ❤️

@BookMattic 3 года назад

Okay now I really have to read this book. I know I've been saying that since I heard you bring up this book a while back, but this really does fit with what I want to learn about.

@BookLabBjorn 3 года назад

I just love psychology, and psychology books don’t get better than this! 😀

@lunapalazzolo1610 2 года назад

Cool! I love this book, I am basing my next body of work (I am an artist) on it. Also, I had to screenshot the meme to complete with my own portrait

@BookLabBjorn 2 года назад

Nice! Have fun with the project! What meme? 🤔

@lechkaniuk6382 3 года назад

Adding to my to-read-list

@BookLabBjorn 3 года назад

Hi Lech! You’ll love this one! Glad to add on to your 1000 book challenge 👍🏻👍🏻

@rapidresultcreators 3 года назад

We are gods with anuses. 🤣 Thanks for sharing, very interesting.

@BookLabBjorn 3 года назад

I could resist putting that line in the intro 😂

@NameRequiredSoHere Год назад

THanks Bjorn. "Denial of Death" is one of my favorite books (if you can call such a gloomy subject "favorite").What a wonderful channel! So many books, so little time-- especially when you're a septuagenarian. I can't read every book I want to, so I appreciate being directed to ones I'd appreciate most.

@BookLabBjorn Год назад

So many books, so little time, indeed!

@jojokintel Год назад

Honor is really important Bjorn.

@PouryaHosseini 3 года назад

So finally what does it say? Should we believe in something unreal? A story? Is it this kinda book that just makes more questions for you or does it recommend some answers?

@welcometoyourdeath481 2 года назад

Just read it, you'll thank me

@transcendingthedyad5663 2 года назад

@@welcometoyourdeath481 If you're expecting clear-cut answer to things, then you are not set in a world-view to actually live out your beingness. No book gives clear-cut answers, However, this book speaks of the depth of existencial life and if you can have the courage to define your own individuality, you will find many answers.

@ruchyrajng6619 2 года назад

Can I still read this book if I'm new to this genre? I'm curious though

@BookLabBjorn 2 года назад

I would say yes and no. I’ve heard many people talking about this book as very complex. I don’t think that should stop you, but it’s good to know. It’s not an easy read, but it’s not impenetrable. If you list some topics in psychology that you are interested in, then I can probably point you to some books that are great for beginners 😀

@himalayanwandererrr 3 года назад

Thanks. Got this book delivered today. Can you confirm the paper/print quality? For mine is poor and completely shit quality.

@BookLabBjorn 3 года назад

I haven’t thought about it... mine is worn, but that’s because of heavy use 🙃

@BookLabBjorn 3 года назад

It looks like this: instagram.com/p/CHF7P5qgPiM/?igshid=1ie9diwgfvm7y

@himalayanwandererrr 3 года назад

@@BookLabBjorn what I mean is the paper quality inside. Just trying to ascertain if I got a counterfeit edition from Amazon, as the paper and print quality inside is so poor.

@BookLabBjorn 3 года назад

@@himalayanwandererrr I’m gonna check.

@BookLabBjorn 3 года назад

@@himalayanwandererrr hmm. Mine is the Free Press version. I’m not super impressed by the quality but I wouldn’t have noticed anything if you wouldn’t have brought it up 🤷‍♂️

@Firuzeh 2 года назад

🙏🏼👌🏼👌🏼🙏🏼

@BookLabBjorn 2 года назад

Thanks for stopping by! 😀😀

@thayermanns4286 2 года назад

People in ads calling a shampoo a "game changer"really have no idea,at 71 this is my game changer!!

@BookLabBjorn 2 года назад

Haha! yeah, This book is better than the best shampoo!!

@FiveFigsDigital 3 года назад

I believe it was released posthumously.

@hanslevin 2 года назад

Ernest Becker passed away (at 49; due to cancer) a few months after the book was published. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for this book posthumously. (Source: Wikipedia.)

@deb1847 2 года назад

Can you do one on demian by Hesse

@BookLabBjorn 2 года назад

I can! It’s been a while since I read it, maybe I can just record the review I made for Instagram. More people should read Demian 😀😀

@Beijejr 2 года назад

Kanon ju!

@BookLabBjorn 2 года назад

Jajamen!

@getsmartquick 2 года назад

Why we so self hating we more than animals? I thought we conquered materialism

@BookLabBjorn 2 года назад

Well that’s a good question! I can’t answer that unfortunately 🤓

@getsmartquick 2 года назад

@@BookLabBjorn you think it's emotional childhood neglect that keeps us stuck in arrested development that's why we materialists. Because mater means mother in Latin

@transcendingthedyad5663 2 года назад

We are self-loathing because we have anuses and because the paradox brings about anxiety, rejection of the ego. Becoming responsible for what we are is a good solution to coping with the paradox. In the awareness of the self, we have separated ourselves from animals, and in doing so, while remaining animals, we dispise that which we see from afar.

@shkdgg 2 года назад

Why did you think that?

@getsmartquick 2 года назад

@@shkdgg Think what bro

@jojokintel Год назад

This book destroyed me. Add some Schopenhauer and life finally comes into focus. I love that I can choose to reject life.

@BookLabBjorn Год назад

I hope you find a book that will put you back together!

@crutherfordmusic Год назад

Rom_10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Col_2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.