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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... helpless and abandoned in a world where we are fated to die . “ This is the terror : to have emerged from nothing ... helplessness . Every child borrows power from adults and creates a personality by introjecting the qualities of the ...
... helpless and abandoned in a world where we are fated to die . “ This is the terror : to have emerged from nothing ... helplessness . Every child borrows power from adults and creates a personality by introjecting the qualities of the ...
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... helpless situation , it is foolish to assume that the fear response of animals would have disappeared in such a weak and highly sensitive species . It is more reasonable to think that it was instead heightened , as some of the early ...
... helpless situation , it is foolish to assume that the fear response of animals would have disappeared in such a weak and highly sensitive species . It is more reasonable to think that it was instead heightened , as some of the early ...
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... helpless infant body trying vainly to grab the world correctly and safely. The result is ludicrous. The child is overwhelmed by experiences of the dualism of the self and the body from both areas, since he can be master of neither. He ...
... helpless infant body trying vainly to grab the world correctly and safely. The result is ludicrous. The child is overwhelmed by experiences of the dualism of the self and the body from both areas, since he can be master of neither. He ...
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... helplessness and obliteration , then sexual matters are secondary and derivative , as Brown says : Thus again it appears that the sexual organizations , pregenital and genital , do not correspond to the natural distribution of Eros in ...
... helplessness and obliteration , then sexual matters are secondary and derivative , as Brown says : Thus again it appears that the sexual organizations , pregenital and genital , do not correspond to the natural distribution of Eros in ...
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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