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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... animal nature , not territorial aggression , or in- nate selfishness , but our need to gain self - esteem , deny our mortality , and achieve a heroic self - image . Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst . We want to clean up ...
... animal nature , not territorial aggression , or in- nate selfishness , but our need to gain self - esteem , deny our mortality , and achieve a heroic self - image . Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst . We want to clean up ...
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... animal wallowing . And this means that evil itself is amenable to critical analysis and , conceivably , to the sway of reason . " If , in some distant future , reason conquers our habit of self - destructive he- roics and we are able to ...
... animal wallowing . And this means that evil itself is amenable to critical analysis and , conceivably , to the sway of reason . " If , in some distant future , reason conquers our habit of self - destructive he- roics and we are able to ...
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... animal nature . Through countless ages of evolution the organism has had to protect its own integrity ; it had its own physiochemical identity and was dedicated to preserving it . This is one of the main problems in organ transplants ...
... animal nature . Through countless ages of evolution the organism has had to protect its own integrity ; it had its own physiochemical identity and was dedicated to preserving it . This is one of the main problems in organ transplants ...
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... animal who gets his feeling of worth symbolically has to minutely compare himself to those around him , to make sure he doesn't come 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 3 6/26/23 10:58 AM Introduction : Human Nature and the Heroic 3.
... animal who gets his feeling of worth symbolically has to minutely compare himself to those around him , to make sure he doesn't come 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 3 6/26/23 10:58 AM Introduction : Human Nature and the Heroic 3.
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... animal . In this sense everything that man does is religious and heroic , and yet in danger of being fictitious and fallible . The question that becomes then the most important one that man can put to himself is simply this : how ...
... animal . In this sense everything that man does is religious and heroic , and yet in danger of being fictitious and fallible . The question that becomes then the most important one that man can put to himself is simply this : how ...
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