Conor K

“the neurotic symptom is a communication about truth: that the illusion that one is invulnerable is a lie.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

“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

“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

“never has there been an age in which so little knowledge is securely possessed, so little a part of the common understanding.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death