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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... hero system that allows us to believe that we transcend death by participating in something of lasting worth . We achieve ersatz im- mortality by sacrificing ourselves to conquer an empire , to build a temple , to write a book , to ...
... hero system that allows us to believe that we transcend death by participating in something of lasting worth . We achieve ersatz im- mortality by sacrificing ourselves to conquer an empire , to build a temple , to write a book , to ...
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... system in the hope of making it accessible as a whole. In this book I cover only his individual psychology; in ... Hero and The Incest-Motif. They would go on to say that because Rank was never analyzed, his repressions gradually got the ...
... system in the hope of making it accessible as a whole. In this book I cover only his individual psychology; in ... Hero and The Incest-Motif. They would go on to say that because Rank was never analyzed, his repressions gradually got the ...
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... hero , make the biggest possible contribution to world life , show that he ... system and in the people it allows to fill its roles . The urge to heroism ... system , a structure of statuses and roles , customs and rules for behavior ...
... hero , make the biggest possible contribution to world life , show that he ... system and in the people it allows to fill its roles . The urge to heroism ... system , a structure of statuses and roles , customs and rules for behavior ...
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... hero - system is frankly magical , religious , and primitive or secular , scientific , and civilized . It is still a myth- ical hero - system in which people serve in order to earn a feeling of primary value , of cosmic specialness , of ...
... hero - system is frankly magical , religious , and primitive or secular , scientific , and civilized . It is still a myth- ical hero - system in which people serve in order to earn a feeling of primary value , of cosmic specialness , of ...
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... hero system that sustains and drives men ? We mentioned the meaner side of man's urge to cosmic heroism , but there is obviously the noble side as well . Man will lay down his life for his country , his society , his family . He will ...
... hero system that sustains and drives men ? We mentioned the meaner side of man's urge to cosmic heroism , but there is obviously the noble side as well . Man will lay down his life for his country , his society , his family . He will ...
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