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is an object in the field of the self: It is one of the things we inhabit.

Becker informs us that the 'self' is in the body but is not part of the body... it is symbolic and is not physical. 'The body is an object in the field of the self: it is one of the things we inhabit A person literally projects or throws himself out of the body, and anywhere at all A man's 'Me' is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his mind, but his clothes and house, his wife and children, [etc].' The human can be symbolically located wherever s/he thinks part of her really exist or belongs.

is the mainspring of human activity which is designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny for man.

The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else... it is the mainspring of human activity activity designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny for man' (Becker 1973: ix)

is, in each instance, a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

Ernest Becker

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