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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... creation in which the routine activity for organisms is " tearing others apart with teeth of all types - biting , grinding flesh , plant stalks , bones between molars , pushing the pulp greedily down the gullet with delight ...
... creation in which the routine activity for organisms is " tearing others apart with teeth of all types - biting , grinding flesh , plant stalks , bones between molars , pushing the pulp greedily down the gullet with delight ...
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... creation . When you combine natural narcissism with the basic need for self - esteem , you create a creature who has to feel himself an object of primary value : first in the universe , representing in himself all of life . This is the ...
... creation . When you combine natural narcissism with the basic need for self - esteem , you create a creature who has to feel himself an object of primary value : first in the universe , representing in himself all of life . This is the ...
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... creation , of unshak- able meaning . They earn this feeling by carving out a place in nature , by building an edifice that reflects human value : a temple , a cathedral , a totem pole , a skyscraper , a family that spans three ...
... creation , of unshak- able meaning . They earn this feeling by carving out a place in nature , by building an edifice that reflects human value : a temple , a cathedral , a totem pole , a skyscraper , a family that spans three ...
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... creation of meaning. Every society thus is a “religion” whether it thinks so or not: Soviet “religion” and Maoist “religion” are as truly religious as are scientific and consumer “religion,” no matter how much they may try to disguise ...
... creation of meaning. Every society thus is a “religion” whether it thinks so or not: Soviet “religion” and Maoist “religion” are as truly religious as are scientific and consumer “religion,” no matter how much they may try to disguise ...
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... creation. The result is that some people have more of what the psychoanalyst Leon J. Saul has aptly called “Inner Sustainment.”30 It is a sense of bodily con- fidence in the face of experience that sees the person more easily through ...
... creation. The result is that some people have more of what the psychoanalyst Leon J. Saul has aptly called “Inner Sustainment.”30 It is a sense of bodily con- fidence in the face of experience that sees the person more easily through ...
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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