Saturday, February 10, 2024

Norman O. Brown (1913-2002)(negativity vs vitality) (nihilism)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_O._Brown


Influence on Ernest Becker

The Denial of Death is a 1973 work of psychoanalysis and philosophy by Ernest Becker, in which the author builds on the works of Brown, Søren KierkegaardSigmund Freud, and Otto Rank.[17] It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1974.[18]