The Work of Ernest Becker with Daniel Liechty
Hermitix
00:00
The Importance of Meditation
Becker: Once you realize that the transference object is itself a human construction, you move back into the human community where we're looking to each other for our strength and our sense of self esteem. We can embrace people like ourselves, but also people very different from ourselves," he says. "The only place that we know that transcendent other is in our relationships with people" The act of defending your transference object by creating disunity among people is a contradiction in terms, writes Becker.
Transcript
Play full episode
