The Denial of Death (2001)
“In the basic anxiety human existence is afraid of as well as anxious about its “being-in-the-world”… . Only if we understand … [this can we] conceive of the seemingly paradoxic phenomenon that people who are afraid of living are also especially frightened of death.—MÉDARD BOSS1I remember one of my college professors—a man very much admired as a teacher of medieval history—confessing that the more he learned about the period the less he was prepared to say: the epoch was so complex, so diversifi...ed that no general statement could safely be made about it. The same thing can surely be said about the theory of mental illness. How dare someone try to write a chapter entitled “A general view” of such a complex and varied phenomenon—especially someone who is not himself a psychiatrist? In fact, I have had an unusually difficult time forcing myself to sit down and write this chapter, even though I feel it belongs in the book. The literature is there for all to see: the record of lifetimes of work by some of the greatest psychologists who ever lived, men possessing the richest personal sensitivities, work reflecting unusual theoretical gifts and based on the most extensive and varied clinical materials.MoreLess
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