Ernest Becker Quotes

Children Feel Hounded By Symbols They Don't Understand The Need Of, Verbal Demands That Seem Picayune, And Rules And Codes That Call Them Away From Their Pleasure In The Straightforward Expression Of Their Natural Energies. And When They Try To Master The Body, Pretend It Isn't There, Act "like A Little Man," The Body Suddenly Overwhelms Them, Submerges Them In Vomit Or Excrement-and The Child Breaks Down In Desperate Tears Over His Melted Pretense At Being A Purely Symbolic Animal. Often The Child Deliberately Soils Himself Or Continues To Wet The Bed, To Protest Against The Imposition Of Artificial Symbolic Rules: He Seems To Be Saying That The Body Is His Primary Reality And That He Wants To Remain In The Simpler Physical Eden And Not Be Thrown Out Into The World Of "right And Wrong.

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