Sentences with phrase «anxiety about mortality»

In it he investigates the ideas put forth by Otto Rank, a contemporary of Freud, who believed that fear of death (or, more properly, anxiety about mortality) is the primary motivator for the vast majority of humans.

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Our self - awareness, though it helps define what is unique and precious about being human, also renders us prey to guilt and to the anxiety stemming from our existential aloneness and our mortality.

While Kass touches on the most common anxieties about a greatly extended average life expectancy — its potentially dire impact on work patterns, parenthood, the social security system, and species renewal, for instance — his main approach is to ponder the value of mortality and the finitude of life.

In this episode Rhonda talks about how heat stress from using the sauna makes the body more resilient to the stresses of aging, possible reasons why one study associated sauna use with up to a 40 % lower all - cause mortality as well as a 50 % lower cardiovascular disease related mortality, how it enhances athletic endurance, staves off muscle atrophy, improves regrowth of muscle after disuse, and some of the profound effects on the brain, including the growth of new brain cells, improvement in focus, learning, and memory, and even potentially ameliorating depression and anxiety.

As a cultural expression, is collecting about fame and fortune, or anxiety and mortality?