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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... creature : the desire to stand out , to be the one in 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 ...
... creature : the desire to stand out , to be the one in 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 ...
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... creature . But even more important is how repression works : it is not simply a negative force opposing life energies ; it lives on life energies and uses them creatively . I mean that fears are naturally absorbed by expansive organis ...
... creature . But even more important is how repression works : it is not simply a negative force opposing life energies ; it lives on life energies and uses them creatively . I mean that fears are naturally absorbed by expansive organis ...
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... creature with a name , a life history . He is a creator with a mind that soars out to speculate about atoms and infinity , who can place himself imaginatively at a point in space and contemplate bemusedly his own planet . This immense ...
... creature with a name , a life history . He is a creator with a mind that soars out to speculate about atoms and infinity , who can place himself imaginatively at a point in space and contemplate bemusedly his own planet . This immense ...
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... creatures we are , clawing and gasping for breath in a universe beyond our ken ? I think such events illustrate the meaning of Pascal's chilling reflec- tion : “ Men are so necessarily mad that not to be mad would amount to another form ...
... creatures we are , clawing and gasping for breath in a universe beyond our ken ? I think such events illustrate the meaning of Pascal's chilling reflec- tion : “ Men are so necessarily mad that not to be mad would amount to another form ...
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... creature that man is . One of the most stunning parts of Brown's study was his presentation of anality in Jonathan Swift . The ultimate horror for Swift was the fact that the sublime , the beau- tiful , and the divine are inextricable ...
... creature that man is . One of the most stunning parts of Brown's study was his presentation of anality in Jonathan Swift . The ultimate horror for Swift was the fact that the sublime , the beau- tiful , and the divine are inextricable ...
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