Review of Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
Picture courtesy: www.goodreads.com First time read was very painful; being from accounting background, it was tough for me to understand the Pulitzer Prize winning book Denial of Death written by Ernest Becker. After the second reading, one can go multiple times into the book if one wishes because of its depth and richness of insights it provides. The book is about the human psychology; our biggest fear of all – fear of death. The insights presented in the book are not of author himself – these are taken from the Kierkegaard to Freud, Jung to Rank, and other notable analysts of human psychology; however, it is clearly visible that Becker had immensely gone through thousands of books and journal in order to summarize the results i.e. book we are reading, and such a task demands a remarkable devotion from any person and Becker had given all of himself to it. It is very difficult to pick out something that intrigues me, because I’d found the whole of the book itself enriching and...