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“Psychology narrows the cause for personal unhappiness down to the person himself, and then he is stuck with himself. But we know that the universal and general cause for personal badness, guilt, and inferiority is the natural world and the person’s relationship to it as a symbolic animal who must find a secure place in it.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

“There is no point in lingering on the fallacies of the revolutionaries of unrepression; one could go on and on, but everything would come back to the same basic thing: the impossibility of living without repression.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

“neurosis as a problem of character and have seen that it can be approached in two ways: as a problem of too much narrowness toward the world or of too much openness.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

“Modern man became psychological because he became isolated from protective collective ideologies. He had to justify himself from within himself.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death