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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... anxiety , to deny the terror of death . Human beings are naturally anxious because we are ultimately helpless and abandoned in a world where we are fated to die . “ This is the terror : to have emerged from nothing , to have a name ...
... anxiety , to deny the terror of death . Human beings are naturally anxious because we are ultimately helpless and abandoned in a world where we are fated to die . “ This is the terror : to have emerged from nothing , to have a name ...
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... anxiety is not part of the child's natural experience but is engendered in him by bad experiences with a depriving mother.10 This theory puts the whole burden of anxiety onto the child's nurture and not his nature . Another psychiatrist ...
... anxiety is not part of the child's natural experience but is engendered in him by bad experiences with a depriving mother.10 This theory puts the whole burden of anxiety onto the child's nurture and not his nature . Another psychiatrist ...
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... anxiety of death; and if by chance they grow up to be philosophers they will probably make the idea a central dictum of their thought—as did Schopenhauer, who both hated his mother and went on to pronounce death the “muse of philosophy ...
... anxiety of death; and if by chance they grow up to be philosophers they will probably make the idea a central dictum of their thought—as did Schopenhauer, who both hated his mother and went on to pronounce death the “muse of philosophy ...
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... anxiety.17 In matters like this , then , the most that one can do is to take sides , to give an opinion based on the authorities that seem to him most compelling , and to present some of the compelling arguments . I frankly side with ...
... anxiety.17 In matters like this , then , the most that one can do is to take sides , to give an opinion based on the authorities that seem to him most compelling , and to present some of the compelling arguments . I frankly side with ...
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... anxiety even where there are none . The argument from psychoanalysis is less speculative and has to be taken even more seriously . It showed us something about the child's inner world that we had never realized : namely , that it was ...
... anxiety even where there are none . The argument from psychoanalysis is less speculative and has to be taken even more seriously . It showed us something about the child's inner world that we had never realized : namely , that it was ...
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