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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... dying gracefully , Becker taught us that awe , fear , and ontological anxiety were natural accompaniments to our contemplation of the fact of death . The third strand . Since the terror of death is so overwhelming we con- spire to keep ...
... dying gracefully , Becker taught us that awe , fear , and ontological anxiety were natural accompaniments to our contemplation of the fact of death . The third strand . Since the terror of death is so overwhelming we con- spire to keep ...
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... death , Dr. Johnson said , wonderfully concentrates the mind . The main thesis of this book is that it does much more than that : the idea of death , the fear of it , haunts the human animal like nothing else ; it is a mainspring of ...
... death , Dr. Johnson said , wonderfully concentrates the mind . The main thesis of this book is that it does much more than that : the idea of death , the fear of it , haunts the human animal like nothing else ; it is a mainspring of ...
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... fear that they pose the larger and longer - range task of changing myself . CHAPTER ONE Introduction : Human Nature and the Heroic with 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 32 6/26/23 10:58 AM xxxii THE DENIAL OF DEATH.
... fear that they pose the larger and longer - range task of changing myself . CHAPTER ONE Introduction : Human Nature and the Heroic with 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 32 6/26/23 10:58 AM xxxii THE DENIAL OF DEATH.
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... death and resurrection . The divine hero of each of these cults was one who ... death . These cults , as G. Stanley Hall so aptly put it , were an attempt to ... fear of death is already too large to be dealt with and summarized in any ...
... death and resurrection . The divine hero of each of these cults was one who ... death . These cults , as G. Stanley Hall so aptly put it , were an attempt to ... fear of death is already too large to be dealt with and summarized in any ...
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... anxiety onto the child's nurture and not his nature . Another psychiatrist , in a less extreme vein , sees the fear of death as greatly heightened by the child's experiences with his parents , by their hostile denial of his life ...
... anxiety onto the child's nurture and not his nature . Another psychiatrist , in a less extreme vein , sees the fear of death as greatly heightened by the child's experiences with his parents , by their hostile denial of his life ...
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