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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... guilt , hostility — by projecting it onto an enemy . It has remained for Becker to make crystal clear the way in which warfare is a social ritual for purification of the world in which the enemy is assigned the role of being dirty ...
... guilt , hostility — by projecting it onto an enemy . It has remained for Becker to make crystal clear the way in which warfare is a social ritual for purification of the world in which the enemy is assigned the role of being dirty ...
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... a new freedom for natural biological urges , a new attitude of pride and joy in the body , the abandonment of shame, guilt, and self-hatred. From this point 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 13 6/26/23 10:58 AM The Terror of Death 13.
... a new freedom for natural biological urges , a new attitude of pride and joy in the body , the abandonment of shame, guilt, and self-hatred. From this point 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 13 6/26/23 10:58 AM The Terror of Death 13.
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Ernest Becker. the abandonment of shame, guilt, and self-hatred. From this point of view, fear of death is something that society creates and at the same time uses against the person to keep him in submission; the psychiatrist Moloney ...
Ernest Becker. the abandonment of shame, guilt, and self-hatred. From this point of view, fear of death is something that society creates and at the same time uses against the person to keep him in submission; the psychiatrist Moloney ...
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... guilt and help- lessness in the child . In his very fine essay Wahl summed up this paradox : the socialization processes for all children are painful and frus- trating , and hence no child escapes forming hostile death wishes to- ward ...
... guilt and help- lessness in the child . In his very fine essay Wahl summed up this paradox : the socialization processes for all children are painful and frus- trating , and hence no child escapes forming hostile death wishes to- ward ...
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... guilt we each feel deep down is connected with a primal crime of patricide and incest com- mitted in the dim recesses of prehistory ; so deep is guilt ingrained , so much is it confused with the body , with sex and excrement , and with ...
... guilt we each feel deep down is connected with a primal crime of patricide and incest com- mitted in the dim recesses of prehistory ; so deep is guilt ingrained , so much is it confused with the body , with sex and excrement , and with ...
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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