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4 unusual facts about Ernest Becker


Ernest Becker

Flight From Death (2006) is a documentary film directed by Patrick Shen, based on Becker's work, and partially funded by the Ernest Becker Foundation.

The reach of such a perspective consequently encompasses science and religion, even to what Sam Keen suggests is Becker's greatest achievement, the creation of the "science of evil".

Murder–suicide

The cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker, whose theories on the human notion of death is strongly influenced by Freud, views the fear of death as a universal phenomenon, a fear repressed in the unconscious and of which people are largely unaware.

Patrick Shen

In 2003, he released the critically acclaimed Flight From Death, a documentary about death anxiety, inspired by the works and writings of cultural anthropologist and social theorist Ernest Becker.


Greg Bennick

Greg released the critically acclaimed Flight from Death, a documentary about death anxiety, inspired by the works and writings of cultural anthropologist and social theorist Ernest Becker (1924–1974) with his film partner Patrick Shen.


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