Abstract
Outliving the Self is analyzed in terms of the implicit imagery of immortality implied by both the title, and the thrust of the subject matter. Although the author discusses the way that his respondents deal with death, and in his “model scenario ” of cultural generativity he identifies the second element of cultural identity as when the prospect of death enters a life, he returns to the image of symbolic immortality via generativity in the final sequence of his scenario. The avoidance of the reality of death is discussed in terms of Heidegger's placement of death at the center of the human experience, and in terms of Lifton's modes of ‘symbolic immortality’ in face of the twin threats of nuclear annihilation and environmental holocaust.
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