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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... ranks among the truly important books of the year . Professor Becker writes with power and brilliant insight . . . moves ... Rank , Soren Kierkegaard , Carl Jung , Erich Fromm , and other giants . . . Becker has written a powerful book ...
... ranks among the truly important books of the year . Professor Becker writes with power and brilliant insight . . . moves ... Rank , Soren Kierkegaard , Carl Jung , Erich Fromm , and other giants . . . Becker has written a powerful book ...
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... Rank is so prominent in these pages that perhaps a few words of in- troduction about him would be helpful here . Frederick Perls once observed that Rank's book Art and Artist was " beyond praise . ” 3 I remember being so struck by this ...
... Rank is so prominent in these pages that perhaps a few words of in- troduction about him would be helpful here . Frederick Perls once observed that Rank's book Art and Artist was " beyond praise . ” 3 I remember being so struck by this ...
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... Rank will do is to send the reader directly to his books. There is no substitute for reading Rank. My personal copies of his books are marked in the covers with an uncommon abundance of notes, underlinings, double exclamation points; he ...
... Rank will do is to send the reader directly to his books. There is no substitute for reading Rank. My personal copies of his books are marked in the covers with an uncommon abundance of notes, underlinings, double exclamation points; he ...
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... Rank are wrong , and we know that they derive largely from the mythology of the circle of psychoanalysts themselves . They never forgave Rank for turning away from Freud and so diminishing their own immortality - symbol ( to use Rank's ...
... Rank are wrong , and we know that they derive largely from the mythology of the circle of psychoanalysts themselves . They never forgave Rank for turning away from Freud and so diminishing their own immortality - symbol ( to use Rank's ...
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... Rank and hardly mention Jung in a book that has as a major aim the closure of psychoanalysis on religion . One reason is that Jung is so prominent and has so many effective interpreters , while Rank is hardly known and has had hardly ...
... Rank and hardly mention Jung in a book that has as a major aim the closure of psychoanalysis on religion . One reason is that Jung is so prominent and has so many effective interpreters , while Rank is hardly known and has had hardly ...
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