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Becker was in the hospital, terminally ill, but rose to the occasion for this daylong conversation. An article entitled "The Heroics of Everyday Life: A Theorist of Death Confronts His Own End" was drawn from this transcript and published by Keen in Psychology Today, April 1974. The transcript is available through the generosity of Sam Keen.
This 86-minute documentary, narrated by Gabriel Byrne, vividly illustrates the cultural aspects of Becker's work. Interspersing quotes from Becker scholars in the fields of literary and cultural criticism, philosophy, religion, existential psychiatry and psycho-history, it tells the Becker story with pictures, stories and music. It substantiates our unconscious motivation in reacting to terror. View this video and understand the Terror Management experiments. (A $35 Flight From Death & Ernest Becker Reader combo is available 
Order together and save! Flight from Death and the Ernest Becker Reader are two of our most-ordered items, and we've recognized this by offering this savings if they're ordered together.
This hospital conversation occurred a few months before Becker died. We are indebted to Sam Keen for making it available to us. It conforms to the text published in Psychology Today (April 1974) entitled "The Heroics of Everyday Life: A Theorist of Death Confronts His Own End." (A transcript of the same interview is available below.)
Becker wrote three masterpieces in the last three years of his short life. In the middle chapters of The Birth and Death of Meaning (1971), he explains the why and how of self esteem, the "dominant motive of humankind." In these two high school lectures Sheldon Solomon captures in his irresistible style the essence of these basic building blocks for understanding the mature Becker in his subsequent books Denial of Death and Escape From Evil.
Laughing at DeathBecker “too dark?” He said laughter reflects a very advanced stage of faith and grace. See Neil’s "Laughing at Death: The evolution of humor to disarm fundamentalism.” Download a .pdf version of Neil's essay here. |