The Pulitzer Price winning book The Denial of Death, by Ernest Becker is a psychology/philosophy work + the concept is based on the works of Søren Kierkegaard, Sigmund Freud, and one of Freud's colleagues, Otto Rank + the basic premise of The Denial of Death is that human civilization, and almost all human activity associated with it, is ultimately an elaborate, symbolic defense mechanism against the knowledge of our own impending death, which in turn acts as the emotional response to man's basic survival mechanism.
A unique total internal reflection!
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