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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... Jung , Erich Fromm , and other giants . . . Becker has written a powerful book .... " -Best Sellers .. a brilliant , passionate synthesis of the human sciences which resur- rects and revitalizes ... the ideas of psychophilosophical ...
... Jung , Erich Fromm , and other giants . . . Becker has written a powerful book .... " -Best Sellers .. a brilliant , passionate synthesis of the human sciences which resur- rects and revitalizes ... the ideas of psychophilosophical ...
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... Jung called their shadow side - feelings of in- feriority , self - hate , guilt , hostility — by projecting it onto an enemy . It has remained for Becker to make crystal clear the way in which warfare is a social ritual for purification ...
... Jung called their shadow side - feelings of in- feriority , self - hate , guilt , hostility — by projecting it onto an enemy . It has remained for Becker to make crystal clear the way in which warfare is a social ritual for purification ...
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... Jung ; his system of thought is at least as brilliant as theirs , if not more so in some ways . We respect Adler for the solidity of his judgment , the directness of his insight , his uncompromising humanism ; we admire Jung for the ...
... Jung ; his system of thought is at least as brilliant as theirs , if not more so in some ways . We respect Adler for the solidity of his judgment , the directness of his insight , his uncompromising humanism ; we admire Jung for the ...
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... Jung is so prominent and has so many effective interpreters , while Rank is hardly known and has had hardly anyone ... Jung's is not , and a good part of it wanders into needless esoteri- cism ; the result is that he often obscures on ...
... Jung is so prominent and has so many effective interpreters , while Rank is hardly known and has had hardly anyone ... Jung's is not , and a good part of it wanders into needless esoteri- cism ; the result is that he often obscures on ...
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... Jung , Erich Fromm , Rollo May , Ernest Schachtel , Abraham Maslow , Harold F. Searles , Norman O. Brown , Laura Perls , and others . We might call this existential paradox the condition of individuality within finitude . Man has a ...
... Jung , Erich Fromm , Rollo May , Ernest Schachtel , Abraham Maslow , Harold F. Searles , Norman O. Brown , Laura Perls , and others . We might call this existential paradox the condition of individuality within finitude . Man has 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