Podcasts Culture Very Bad Wizards Episode 287: Gods With Anuses (The Denial of Death Pt. 1)

Episode 287: Gods With Anuses (The Denial of Death Pt. 1)

Published: June 25, 2024, 7:56 p.m.

David faces his greatest fear as he and Tamler dive into Ernest\xa0Becker\u2019s 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner The Denial of Death. Blending\xa0existentialist ideas within a psychoanalytic framework, Becker argues\xa0that the ultimate source of human motivation is not the repression of\xa0sexual drives (as Freud thought) but our terror of death and the\xa0yearning for an immortality we can never possess. This episode focuses\xa0on Part One of Becker\u2019s book, and we\u2019ll conclude the discussion in the\xa0next episode.

Plus are gun owners really dissatisfied with their penis size? We look at the numbers.

Hill, T. D., Zeng, L., Burdette, A. M., Dowd-Arrow, B., Bartkowski, J. P., & Ellison, C. G. (2024).\xa0Size matters? Penis dissatisfaction and gun ownership in America. American journal of men's health, 18(3), 15579883241255830.

The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker\xa0[amazon.com affiliate link]

The Denial of Death [wikipedia.org]

Let us know where we should hold our 300th episode listener meet-up [surveymonkey.com]