ashraya 's review for:

The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

4.25

challenging dark informative slow-paced

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Reading this book was part privilege, part ordeal. It laid things bare in a way I haven’t encountered often. I could see myself starkly in the book. To face the limits of everything and not lose hope is such a remarkable feat. This is a book that will shake things up. I did not realise how much it would be a book on psychoanalysis. I find myself more receptive to Freud and more in awe of Kierkegaard after this book.