Escape from EvilFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Denial of Death, a penetrating and insightful perspective on the source of evil in our world. “A profound, nourishing book…absolutely essential to the understanding of our troubled times.” —Anais Nin “An urgent essay that bears all the marks of a final philosophical raging against the dying of the light.” —Newsweek “Brilliant and challenging…adds another bit of reason to balance destruction…It is, in the best sense of the words, both scientific and philosophical…of the highest importance.” —Los Angeles Times |
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... problem . Whereas it is obvious - as it was to Rank and Van der Leeuw— that man has something great at stake in this opposition : the control and allaying of creature anxiety . Octavio Paz has understood how central the problem of ...
... problem . Whereas it is obvious - as it was to Rank and Van der Leeuw— that man has something great at stake in this opposition : the control and allaying of creature anxiety . Octavio Paz has understood how central the problem of ...
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... problem of aggression in human life . As I said , insights like these seemed to me to cover the problem , yet something vital was always left un- said . It was not until I confronted the work of Rank , and then Brown , that the gap ...
... problem of aggression in human life . As I said , insights like these seemed to me to cover the problem , yet something vital was always left un- said . It was not until I confronted the work of Rank , and then Brown , that the gap ...
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... problem of acting in the universe ; only partly is it connected to the accidents of one's birth and early experience ... problem of these dimensions . As Progoff has so brilliantly summed up psychology after Freud , it all culminates ...
... problem of acting in the universe ; only partly is it connected to the accidents of one's birth and early experience ... problem of these dimensions . As Progoff has so brilliantly summed up psychology after Freud , it all culminates ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
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