The title of this book may confuse the reader. Why the mechanisms of life, because life is something organic. The first association that comes to mind is Anna Freud's term for defense mechanisms - artificial mechanisms that protect our Ego from attraction and reality. The second association is one of the main maxims of the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff: "A person is a sleeping car." Gurdjieff considered everything mechanical - even a dream. The third association is the "Anti-Oedipus" of Deleuze and Guattari, who wrote about a person as a willing machine working in spoiled mode. But we are alive! But perhaps it only seems to us. This book discusses issues related to the mechanisms of life, such as depression, magical thinking, death drive, consciousness, God and much more.