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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... existential hero who follows this way of self - analysis differs from the average person in knowing that he / she is obsessed . Instead of hiding within the illusions of character , he sees his impotence and vulnerability . The ...
... existential hero who follows this way of self - analysis differs from the average person in knowing that he / she is obsessed . Instead of hiding within the illusions of character , he sees his impotence and vulnerability . The ...
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... existentialism . We already have volumes of work and thought on the subject , from reli- gion and philosophy and — since Darwin — from science itself . The problem is how to make sense out of it ; the accumulation of research and ...
... existentialism . We already have volumes of work and thought on the subject , from reli- gion and philosophy and — since Darwin — from science itself . The problem is how to make sense out of it ; the accumulation of research and ...
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... existential rebirth in psychology ; it lays bare the nature of man with a clarity and comprehen- siveness that are truly amazing . Man's Existential Dilemma We always knew that there was something peculiar about man , something deep ...
... existential rebirth in psychology ; it lays bare the nature of man with a clarity and comprehen- siveness that are truly amazing . Man's Existential Dilemma We always knew that there was something peculiar about man , something deep ...
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... existential paradox the condition of individuality within finitude . Man has a symbolic identity that brings him sharply out of nature . He is a symbolic self , a creature with a name , a life history . He is a creator with a mind that ...
... existential paradox the condition of individuality within finitude . Man has a symbolic identity that brings him sharply out of nature . He is a symbolic self , a creature with a name , a life history . He is a creator with a mind that ...
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... existential dualism makes an impossible situation , an excruciating dilemma . Mad because , as we shall see , everything that man does in his symbolic world is an attempt to deny and overcome his grotesque fate . He literally drives ...
... existential dualism makes an impossible situation , an excruciating dilemma . Mad because , as we shall see , everything that man does in his symbolic world is an attempt to deny and overcome his grotesque fate . He literally drives ...
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