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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... feel safe and are able to pretend that the world is manageable . But the price we pay is high . We repress our bodies to purchase a soul that time cannot destroy ; we sacrifice pleasure to buy immortality ; we encapsulate ourselves ...
... feel safe and are able to pretend that the world is manageable . But the price we pay is high . We repress our bodies to purchase a soul that time cannot destroy ; we sacrifice pleasure to buy immortality ; we encapsulate ourselves ...
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... feel that it is my first mature work . One of the main things I try to do in this book is to present a summing - up of psychology after Freud by tying the whole development of psychology back to the still - towering Kierkegaard . I am ...
... feel that it is my first mature work . One of the main things I try to do in this book is to present a summing - up of psychology after Freud by tying the whole development of psychology back to the still - towering Kierkegaard . I am ...
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... feel that practically everyone is expendable except ourselves . We should feel prepared , as Emerson once put it , to recreate the whole world out of ourselves even if no one else existed . The thought frightens us ; we don't know how ...
... feel that practically everyone is expendable except ourselves . We should feel prepared , as Emerson once put it , to recreate the whole world out of ourselves even if no one else existed . The thought frightens us ; we don't know how ...
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... feel secure in his self - esteem . But man is not just a blind glob of idling protoplasm , but a creature with a name who lives in a world of symbols and dreams and not merely matter . His sense of self - worth is constituted ...
... feel secure in his self - esteem . But man is not just a blind glob of idling protoplasm , but a creature with a name who lives in a world of symbols and dreams and not merely matter . His sense of self - worth is constituted ...
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Ernest Becker. of what one is doing to earn his feeling of heroism is the main self - analytic problem of life ... feel heroic in the plan for action that their culture has set up . They don't believe it is empirically true to the ...
Ernest Becker. of what one is doing to earn his feeling of heroism is the main self - analytic problem of life ... feel heroic in the plan for action that their culture has set up . They don't believe it is empirically true to the ...
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