Hi Alex:
Interesting response. You say you have wondered about the "habit of fearing life… How people hold desperately onto security …at the expense of the risk entailed in living." I wonder what the "risk entailed in living" is of which you speak. Rank talks about the paradox of how the fear of death leads to a fear of living. He quotes Thomas Hobbes ""I and fear are born twins." Angst, Rank wrote in Will Therapy, is at once a fear of life and a fear of death." I wonder how you think a person would live who did not fear death and therefore had no fear of life or living in contrast to those who fear life because of their fear of death – those who say no to life so they entail no debt to death so to speak. Are there examples of such people?
Taken from the Ernest Becker Listserv Discussion Archives
