The Denial of Death

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Simon 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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Introduction Human Nature and the Heroic 1
1
THE DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY OF HEROISM 9
9
The Recasting of Some Basic Psychoanalytic Ideas 25
25
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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After receiving a PhD in cultural anthropology from Syracuse University, Dr. Ernest Becker (1924–1974) taught at the University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco State College, and Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is survived by his wife, Marie, and a foundation that bears his name—The Ernest Becker Foundation.

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