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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... Basic Psychoanalytic Ideas Human Character as a Vital Lie 25 47 CHAPTER FIVE : The Psychoanalyst Kierkegaard 67 CHAPTER SIX : The Problem of Freud's Character , Noch Einmal 93 PART II : THE FAILURES OF HEROISM 125 CHAPTER SEVEN : The ...
... Basic Psychoanalytic Ideas Human Character as a Vital Lie 25 47 CHAPTER FIVE : The Psychoanalyst Kierkegaard 67 CHAPTER SIX : The Problem of Freud's Character , Noch Einmal 93 PART II : THE FAILURES OF HEROISM 125 CHAPTER SEVEN : The ...
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... basic motivation for human behavior is our biological need to control our basic 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 ...
... basic motivation for human behavior is our biological need to control our basic 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 ...
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... basic insights, and its overall implications. This will be the pale Rank, not the staggeringly rich one of his books. Also, Ira Progoff's outline presentation and appraisal of Rank is so correct, so finely balanced in judgment, that it ...
... basic insights, and its overall implications. This will be the pale Rank, not the staggeringly rich one of his books. Also, Ira Progoff's outline presentation and appraisal of Rank is so correct, so finely balanced in judgment, that it ...
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... basic mistakes . The question for the historian is , rather , what there was in the nature of the psychoanalytic movement , the ideas themselves , the public and 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 31 6/26/23 10:58 AM Preface xxxi.
... basic mistakes . The question for the historian is , rather , what there was in the nature of the psychoanalytic movement , the ideas themselves , the public and 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 31 6/26/23 10:58 AM Preface xxxi.
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... basic narcissism ; most of the time , for most of us , this is still a work- able definition of luck . It is one of the meaner aspects of narcissism that we feel that practically everyone is expendable except ourselves . We should feel ...
... basic narcissism ; most of the time , for most of us , this is still a work- able definition of luck . It is one of the meaner aspects of narcissism that we feel that practically everyone is expendable except ourselves . We should feel ...
Table des matières
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9 | |
25 | |
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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