"The great vocation of the collective human psyche is denial.
These illustrations are notable for their drastic and powerful simplification of the human body, their denial of pictorial space, and their minimal stage setting.
The film, though handsomely photographed and well acted, ultimately doesn't register as a stinging or especially funny satire of human pettiness and denial.
And, in fact, he put it better than anyone has: "The current financial crisis can make us overlook the fact that it originated in a profound human crisis: the denial of the primacy of the human person!" he wrote.
Eric Schlosser, the author of "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" (Houghton Mifflin), said that the popularity of fast food was an ideal demonstration of the human power of denial.
And while Schulz is very good at exploring the manifold human mechanisms of denial, even she can't explain why Hans Blix never managed to convince either Bush or Blair that their conviction about the existence of those weapons of mass destruction was wrong.
The human capacity for denial is astounding -- I would know.
Depression might also be seen, then, as a failure of the human capacity for denial and self-deception.
For the Palestinian people, these were five decades of de-development, suppressed human potential and denial of the basic human right to development, with no end in sight".
In a consultation with 51 people with mental and psychosocial disabilities from 18 low- and middle-income countries, Drew et al. (34) found that stigma and discrimination lead to violations of human rights, particularly denial of the right to exercise legal capacity.
