Ernest Becker

Ernest Becker wasa post-freudian who wrote The Denial of Death. The premise of his work was that the human attempt to deny our own death was the basis for all evil. The attempt to avoid dieing led to fascism particularly in his work because it led to the type of insanity where in a group psychosis induced by the inability to cope with indivudal or collective mortality people gave up their individual identities and forged an immortal whole in particular the Third Reich. It has been a while since I've read Becker, like over a decade. I am going to read it again and just keep you posted on what I find out. But consider that immortality is impossible but it is what is being sought after by people. People deny the most fundamental and inevitable truth of life. Everything that is founded on the inability to face mortality is evil because it is based on something that has a dishonest foudnation or a hopeless wish at its foundation.

The ability of the libido to attach freely, separate from denying death is the essence of transcendence. What are we transcending in transcendence?? THE FEAR OF DEATH.