Reading Ernst Becker's Denial of Death

Still not quite sure what to make of it. The book is one of those far-out, associative psychology texts (not Campbellian or Freudian, but in the manner of Freud or Joseph Campbell) that makes very broad claims with little-to-no proof. It's a style that doesn't really seem to be as popular now as it was in the 20th century. Nowadays, I think that books l…