The culmination of his life's work, "The Denial of Death is renowned anthropologist Ernest Becker's inspiring and revolutionary answer to the "why" of human existence. In Becker's daring and convincing challenge to the classic Freudian school of thought, he sees his fellow humans as constant fighters, struggling against inherent ambiguities in themselves and in the world, while trying to define themselves and to achieve immortality. Becker sees the denial of death as man's driving force to distinguish himself beyond the grave. This ground breaking work is now reissued to take its rightful place on the shelf with our most influential works on man's interior existence.