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To: Poet who wrote (34700)	10/21/2001 8:35:18 AM
From: briskit	Respond to of 82486

What are you doing up and on the computer girl? Ernst Becker wrote it. Then he died an untimely death. It came to mind when you mentioned Freud. I found the book much more interesting than my description of it is going to show. What I like about the book is that it attempts a synthesis of what Becker considers the important thoughts of several disciplines, from the human sciences to religion, dealing with the human condition. He consciously works not to negate or destroy opposing views, but to include them in a larger whole. So he works with Freud, Jung, Otto Rank, Kierkegaard, and others. I was introduced to quite a bit of information and perspective through this book. It's been a while since I read it. He works with psychoanalysis and Freud's re-interpretors. He looks at existentialism and how it relates to behavioral and religious sciences. I recommend it. Actually I really need to read it again. You all have a book group type thing going here, don't you? Non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere (Spinoza). I think we should start a thread of foreign language quotes so we can stockpile them for cocktail and party conversation.