[ilds] ILDS Digest, Vol 104, Issue 22

[Rony Alfandary]

fascinating stuff. I know of Becker but never read that book. I am more
acquainted with Rank's attempt to introduce the death anxiety both as a
theoretical issue and as a practical measure to limit the length of
psychoanalytic treatments. I shall try to get my hands on 'denial of death'/
thanks,
rony










*Rony Alfandary*, Ph.D.
*Clinical Social Worker*

Postgraduate Program of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy,  Bar-Ilan University

Head of the Center for Therapeutic Professions, Seminar Hakibbutzim, Tel
Aviv



On 3 January 2016 at 08:04, James Gifford <james.d.gifford at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Rony,
>
> On 2016-01-02 9:28 PM, Rony Alfandary wrote:
>
>> there are some reality events, though, that can not be
>> regarded as fiction - death for instance.
>>
>
> Death is a persistent anxiety in Durrell's works from the get go.  The
> ankle bone sticking out of the funeral pyre in /Pied Piper of Lovers/
> never, never goes away...  The fear of a knock to a wrist or ankle even
> comes back late in the Quintet, still marking the anxiety around
> mortality.  I've tried to deal with this a bit in my last book, /Personal
> Modernisms/, but I do think it's worth noting the meeting point between
> psychoanalytic thought (via Otto Rank) and modern cultural psychology (via
> the Terror Management Theory paradigm) -- I've seen this as a useful way of
> approaching Durrell for, well, quite a while now.
>
> For what it's worth, one of the professors under whom I read Freud was a
> colleague of Ernest Becker, and that's influenced me a good deal.  When I
> first read Durrell reading Rank, that was already on my mind.
>
> Whether we experience it ourselves or not, we all know we die, and that
> shapes the process of living.
>
> All best,
> James
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