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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... burden of life — and death .... It is hard to over - estimate the importance of this book ; Becker succeeds brilliantly in what he sets out to do , and the effort was necessary . " -The Chicago Sun - Times THE DENIAL OF DEATH Ernest ...
... burden of life — and death .... It is hard to over - estimate the importance of this book ; Becker succeeds brilliantly in what he sets out to do , and the effort was necessary . " -The Chicago Sun - Times THE DENIAL OF DEATH Ernest ...
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... burden he never imagined he would ever have : the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed . For centuries man lived in the belief that truth was slim and elusive and 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 27 6/26/23 10:58 AM Preface ...
... burden he never imagined he would ever have : the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed . For centuries man lived in the belief that truth was slim and elusive and 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 27 6/26/23 10:58 AM Preface ...
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... burden of anxiety onto the child's nurture and not his nature . Another psychiatrist , in a less extreme vein , sees the fear of death as greatly heightened by the child's experiences with his parents , by their hostile denial of his ...
... burden of anxiety onto the child's nurture and not his nature . Another psychiatrist , in a less extreme vein , sees the fear of death as greatly heightened by the child's experiences with his parents , by their hostile denial of his ...
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... burden to him because he overgeneralizes them . One such generalization is what the psychoanalysts call the “ talion princi- ple . ” The child crushes insects , sees the cat eat a mouse and make it vanish , joins with the family to make ...
... burden to him because he overgeneralizes them . One such generalization is what the psychoanalysts call the “ talion princi- ple . ” The child crushes insects , sees the cat eat a mouse and make it vanish , joins with the family to make ...
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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