Psychoanalyst Otto Rank made this argument... existential anthropologist Ernest Becker picked up on it and emphasized the second half of the dialectic duo (leading eventually to discovery of Terror Management Theory)...but, as Daniel Liechty, social work professor and expert on Becker's work, notes that it is time to revise and bring back the "integral task" of bringing both these great motivational forces together again (i.e., the "Rankian dialectic")-- [quote from the book review by Liechty in Gillian, S. N. (2005). Terrified by education: Teaching children to fear learning. Phemore Press.]
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