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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... father I will not die . So long as we stay obediently within the defense mechanisms of our personality , what Wilhelm Reich called " character armor " we feel safe and are able to pretend that the world is manageable . But the price we ...
... father I will not die . So long as we stay obediently within the defense mechanisms of our personality , what Wilhelm Reich called " character armor " we feel safe and are able to pretend that the world is manageable . But the price we ...
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... father gets a fierce glow in his eyes as he clubs a rat , the watching child might also expect to be clubbed — especially if he has been thinking bad magical thoughts . I don't want to seem to make an exact picture of processes that are ...
... father gets a fierce glow in his eyes as he clubs a rat , the watching child might also expect to be clubbed — especially if he has been thinking bad magical thoughts . I don't want to seem to make an exact picture of processes that are ...
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... father” in any way. He is a prodigy in limbo. In both halves of his experience he is dispossessed, yet impressions keep pouring in on him and sensations keep welling up within him, flooding his body. He has to make some kind of sense ...
... father” in any way. He is a prodigy in limbo. In both halves of his experience he is dispossessed, yet impressions keep pouring in on him and sensations keep welling up within him, flooding his body. He has to make some kind of sense ...
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... father was his competitor , and he held in check a murderous aggressiveness toward him . The reason he held it in check was that he knew the father was physically stronger than he and that the result of an open fight would be the father's ...
... father was his competitor , and he held in check a murderous aggressiveness toward him . The reason he held it in check was that he knew the father was physically stronger than he and that the result of an open fight would be the father's ...
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... : the child wants to conquer death by becoming the father of himself , the creator and sustainer of his own life . We 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 35 6/26/23 10:58 AM The Recasting of Some Basic Psychoanalytic Ideas 35.
... : the child wants to conquer death by becoming the father of himself , the creator and sustainer of his own life . We 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 35 6/26/23 10:58 AM The Recasting of Some Basic Psychoanalytic Ideas 35.
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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