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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... Kierkegaard , Carl 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 ...
... Kierkegaard , Carl 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 ...
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... Kierkegaard 67 CHAPTER SIX : The Problem of Freud's Character , Noch Einmal 93 PART II : THE FAILURES OF HEROISM 125 CHAPTER SEVEN : The Spell Cast by Persons- The Nexus of Unfreedom 127 CHAPTER EIGHT : Otto Rank and the Closure of ...
... Kierkegaard 67 CHAPTER SIX : The Problem of Freud's Character , Noch Einmal 93 PART II : THE FAILURES OF HEROISM 125 CHAPTER SEVEN : The Spell Cast by Persons- The Nexus of Unfreedom 127 CHAPTER EIGHT : Otto Rank and the Closure of ...
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... Kierkegaardian leap and trust in the “ sacrosanct vitality of the cosmos , ” in the unknown god of life whose mys- terious purpose is expressed in the overwhelming drama of cosmic evolution . There are signs the acceptance of Becker's ...
... Kierkegaardian leap and trust in the “ sacrosanct vitality of the cosmos , ” in the unknown god of life whose mys- terious purpose is expressed in the overwhelming drama of cosmic evolution . There are signs the acceptance of Becker's ...
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... Kierkegaard . I am thus arguing for a merger of psychology and mythico - religious perspective . I base this argu- ment in large part on the work of Otto Rank , and I have made a major at- tempt to transcribe the relevance of his ...
... Kierkegaard . I am thus arguing for a merger of psychology and mythico - religious perspective . I base this argu- ment in large part on the work of Otto Rank , and I have made a major at- tempt to transcribe the relevance of his ...
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... Kierkegaard who forcefully introduced the existential paradox into modern psychology , with his bril- liant analysis of the Adam and Eve myth that had conveyed that paradox to the Western mind for all time . In recent times every ...
... Kierkegaard who forcefully introduced the existential paradox into modern psychology , with his bril- liant analysis of the Adam and Eve myth that had conveyed that paradox to the Western mind for all time . In recent times every ...
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