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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... give grim testimony to the universal need for a scapegoat — a Jew , a nigger , a dirty communist , a Muslim , a Tutsi . Warfare is a death potlatch in which we sacrifice our brave boys to destroy the cow- ardly enemies of righteousness ...
... give grim testimony to the universal need for a scapegoat — a Jew , a nigger , a dirty communist , a Muslim , a Tutsi . Warfare is a death potlatch in which we sacrifice our brave boys to destroy the cow- ardly enemies of righteousness ...
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... give us manageable thrills—if they thrill us at all. One thing that I hope my confrontation of Rank will do is to send the reader directly to his books. There is no substitute for reading Rank. My personal copies of his books are marked ...
... give us manageable thrills—if they thrill us at all. One thing that I hope my confrontation of Rank will do is to send the reader directly to his books. There is no substitute for reading Rank. My personal copies of his books are marked ...
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... give them their due — a primary sense of human value as unique contributors to cosmic life . How would our modern societ- ies contrive to satisfy such an honest demand , without being shaken to their foundations ? Only those societies ...
... give them their due — a primary sense of human value as unique contributors to cosmic life . How would our modern societ- ies contrive to satisfy such an honest demand , without being shaken to their foundations ? Only those societies ...
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... give truth its due ? Would it not be better to give death the place in actuality and in our thoughts which properly belongs to it , and to yield a little more prominence to that unconscious attitude towards death which we have hitherto ...
... give truth its due ? Would it not be better to give death the place in actuality and in our thoughts which properly belongs to it , and to yield a little more prominence to that unconscious attitude towards death which we have hitherto ...
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... give an opinion based on the authorities that seem to him most compelling , and to present some of the compelling arguments . I frankly side with this second school — in fact , this whole book is a network of arguments based on the ...
... give an opinion based on the authorities that seem to him most compelling , and to present some of the compelling arguments . I frankly side with this second school — in fact , this whole book is a network of arguments based on 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