The Denial of DeathSimon and Schuster, 1 nov. 2007 - 336 pages Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Denial of Death explores how people and cultures around the world have reacted to the concept of death from celebrated cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life’s work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker’s brilliant and impassioned answer to the “why” of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie—man’s refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates decades after its writing. |
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... first , overwhelm- ing . Yet as I allowed myself to sink into the cosmic dissolution , the larger death of everything cast a new light on everything in the here and now . In assuaging the terror of this cosmic mortality awareness , I ...
... first , overwhelm- ing . Yet as I allowed myself to sink into the cosmic dissolution , the larger death of everything cast a new light on everything in the here and now . In assuaging the terror of this cosmic mortality awareness , I ...
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... however evanescent , however fleeting that existence may be . Brian Greene Foreword The first words Ernest Becker said to me when 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 19 6/26/23 10:58 AM Foreword to the 2023 Edition xix.
... however evanescent , however fleeting that existence may be . Brian Greene Foreword The first words Ernest Becker said to me when 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 19 6/26/23 10:58 AM Foreword to the 2023 Edition xix.
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Ernest Becker. Foreword The first words Ernest Becker said to me when I walked into his hospital room were : “ You are catching me in extremis . This is a test of everything I've written about death . And I've got a chance to show how ...
Ernest Becker. Foreword The first words Ernest Becker said to me when I walked into his hospital room were : “ You are catching me in extremis . This is a test of everything I've written about death . And I've got a chance to show how ...
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... first strand . The world is terrifying . To say the least , Becker's ac- count of nature has little in common with Walt Disney . Mother Nature is a brutal bitch , red in tooth and claw , who destroys what she creates . We live , he says ...
... first strand . The world is terrifying . To say the least , Becker's ac- count of nature has little in common with Walt Disney . Mother Nature is a brutal bitch , red in tooth and claw , who destroys what she creates . We live , he says ...
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... first mature work . One of the main things I try to do in this book is to present a summing - up of psychology after Freud by tying the whole development of psychology back to the still - towering Kierkegaard . I am thus arguing for a ...
... first mature work . One of the main things I try to do in this book is to present a summing - up of psychology after Freud by tying the whole development of psychology back to the still - towering Kierkegaard . I am thus arguing for a ...
Table des matières
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Human Character as a Vital Lie | 47 |
THE FAILURES OF HEROISM | 125 |
Otto Rank and the Closure | 159 |
The Present Outcome of Psychoanalysis | 177 |
A General View of Mental Illness | 209 |
RETROSPECT AND CONCLUSION | 253 |
References | 285 |
Index | 307 |
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Adler anal animal anxiety basic Becker becomes body burden castration castration anxiety castration complex causa-sui project Chapter character child clinical complex creation creative creature creatureliness cultural death instinct defenses denial Erich Fromm Ernest Becker existential experience fact fantasy father fear of death feel fetish fetishist freedom Freud Freudian Fromm give Greenacre guilt helplessness hero hero system heroic human condition hypnosis Ibid idea ideal ideology illusion immortality individual inner insight instinct Jung Kierkegaard kind live magical man's meaning modern mother mystery narcissism nature neurosis neurotic Oedipus Oedipus complex one's oneself Otto Rank parents patient person perversions physical possibility precisely problem Psychiatry psychoanalytic psychology psychosis Rank Rank's reality reason religion represents role sado-masochism schizophrenic scientific secure seems sense sexual social symbolic talk terror thing thought transcendence transference object Transvestism truly truth understand whole