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The EBF has published bi-monthly newsletters since the early 1990s. Over that time we have compiled hundreds of Becker-oriented essays, literature reviews, news updates, and opinion pieces. Reflecting the fecundity of Becker’s analysis, topics range from psychology to ecology to cinema studies. Click on the title above to browse the most relevant articles from the past 17 years.

Laughing at Death Again
Wednesday, 10 April 2013 17:25

In response to our notification of the Email list that the EBF website had been hacked, Board Member John Wynn advised:

“Sheesh! Who wants to hack mortality?

Oh yeah: everybody…” ;^)

Ed Note: Thanks to the overtime weekend work of our admin asst Cory Foster we emerged unscathed.

 
New DVDs in Store Soon
Wednesday, 10 April 2013 16:23

A new DVD set documenting our Fall 2012 conference will soon be available at our online store. If you are interested, please let us know as soon as possible so we can order a reasonable number of copies.

 
David Loy in Seattle?
Wednesday, 10 April 2013 16:21

Rick Harlin writes that David Loy might be speaking in Seattle June 15-16. Watch this space to keep track.

David Loy’s blogs on environment and Buddhism here: huffingtonpost.com/david-loy/ and the many links at davidloy.org

 
Greg Bennick in Europe
Wednesday, 10 April 2013 16:20
Greg Bennick is on tour throughout Europe, Russia, Ukraine for March and April to speak about a number of topics including Becker, and will be showing Flight From Death – translated into local languages – in Serbia, Russia, Macedonia, and also Belgium. Tour info is at http://www.wordsasweapons.com
 
A Night in Arzamas
Wednesday, 10 April 2013 16:18

A Night in Arzamas: How Tolstoy’s obsession with mortality became a teachable moment. By Jordan Smith

Highly recommended is this 2,700 word essay on Tolstoy, his unfinished Notes of a Madman, and his Death of Ivan Ilych.

To find it, Google the March/April 2012 issue of The American Interest.

Smith does a nice job of bringing Tolstoy into our time, writing insightfully about Becker and TMT and Irvin Yalom and even the EBF and The Denial File (mentioned courtesy of an interview Smith had with Dan Liechty).

 
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Becker on Otto Rank

"Rank goes so far as to say that the 'need for a truly religious ideology is inherent in human nature and its fulfillment is basic to any kind of social life.' Only in this way, says Rank, only by surrendering to the bigness of nature on the highest, least-fetishized level, can man conquer death. In other words, the true heroic validation or one's life, lies beyond sex, beyond the other, beyond the private religion-all these are makeshifts that pull man down or that hem him in, leaving him torn with ambiguity."

-From Denial of Death, Chapter 8

more on Otto Rank here