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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... concision , into an organic body of theory which attempts nothing less than to explain the possibilities of man's meaningful , sane survival . . . . ” -Minneapolis Tribune 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 1 6/26/23 10:58 AM Front Cover.
... concision , into an organic body of theory which attempts nothing less than to explain the possibilities of man's meaningful , sane survival . . . . ” -Minneapolis Tribune 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 1 6/26/23 10:58 AM Front Cover.
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... body , with reason and emotion , refined faculties that have shaped words and images and structures and sounds to express our longings and frustrations , our confusions and revelations , our failures and triumphs . These are the human ...
... body , with reason and emotion , refined faculties that have shaped words and images and structures and sounds to express our longings and frustrations , our confusions and revelations , our failures and triumphs . These are the human ...
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... body - count the greater the sacrifice for the sacred cause , the side of destiny , the divine plan . Becker's radical conclusion that it is our altruistic motives that turn the world into a charnel house — our desire to merge with a ...
... body - count the greater the sacrifice for the sacred cause , the side of destiny , the divine plan . Becker's radical conclusion that it is our altruistic motives that turn the world into a charnel house — our desire to merge with a ...
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... body of data he had to pass through , and where it all pointed . He knew these things specifically as re- gards psychoanalysis itself , which he wanted to transcend and did ; he knew it roughly , as regards the philosophical ...
... body of data he had to pass through , and where it all pointed . He knew these things specifically as re- gards psychoanalysis itself , which he wanted to transcend and did ; he knew it roughly , as regards the philosophical ...
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... freedom for natural biological urges , a new attitude of pride and joy in the body , the abandonment of shame, guilt, and self-hatred. From this point 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 13 6/26/23 10:58 AM The Terror of Death 13.
... freedom for natural biological urges , a new attitude of pride and joy in the body , the abandonment of shame, guilt, and self-hatred. From this point 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 13 6/26/23 10:58 AM The Terror of Death 13.
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