Sentences with phrase «unconscious death anxiety»

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The Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch thinks that the relative neglect of the problem of death in modern secular thought is due to the unconscious influence of inherited Christian views: «Thus in its ability to suppress the anxiety of all earlier times, apparently this quite shallow courage [of modern secular people] feasts on a borrowed credit card.

Whether this anxiety is triggered by the fear of death in a major life threatening illness or whether it is a pattern of worrying about the future or dwelling in past traumatic events, it gets more intense at night as the unconscious mind needs to take over from the conscious mind for sleep to happen.