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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... instinct for reality ” is right , we have achieved the remarkable feat of exposing that reality in a scientific way . In the following discussion I am obliged to repeat and sum up things I have written else- where ( The Birth and Death ...
... instinct for reality ” is right , we have achieved the remarkable feat of exposing that reality in a scientific way . In the following discussion I am obliged to repeat and sum up things I have written else- where ( The Birth and Death ...
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... death as a biological and evolutionary problem . Here I think he is on very sound ground , and I especially like the way he puts the case . Zilboorg points out that this fear is actually an expression of the instinct of self ...
... death as a biological and evolutionary problem . Here I think he is on very sound ground , and I especially like the way he puts the case . Zilboorg points out that this fear is actually an expression of the instinct of self ...
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... death in the normal biological functioning of our instinct of self - preservation , as well as our utter obliviousness to this fear in our conscious life : Therefore in normal times we move about actually without ever be- lieving in our ...
... death in the normal biological functioning of our instinct of self - preservation , as well as our utter obliviousness to this fear in our conscious life : Therefore in normal times we move about actually without ever be- lieving in our ...
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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