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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... Heroic XV xxi xxvii 1 PART I : THE DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY OF HEROISM 9 CHAPTER TWO : The Terror of Death 11 CHAPTER THREE : CHAPTER FOUR : The Recasting of Some Basic Psychoanalytic Ideas Human Character as a Vital Lie 25 47 CHAPTER FIVE ...
... Heroic XV xxi xxvii 1 PART I : THE DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY OF HEROISM 9 CHAPTER TWO : The Terror of Death 11 CHAPTER THREE : CHAPTER FOUR : The Recasting of Some Basic Psychoanalytic Ideas Human Character as a Vital Lie 25 47 CHAPTER FIVE ...
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... such a man in the heroic agony of his dying . In the years since his death , Becker has been widely recognized as one of the great spiritual cartographers of our age and a 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 21 6/26/23 10:58 AM.
... such a man in the heroic agony of his dying . In the years since his death , Becker has been widely recognized as one of the great spiritual cartographers of our age and a 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 21 6/26/23 10:58 AM.
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... heroic and tran- scend death , every culture must provide its members with an intricate sym- bolic system that is covertly religious . This means that ideological conflicts between cultures are essentially battles between immortality ...
... heroic and tran- scend death , every culture must provide its members with an intricate sym- bolic system that is covertly religious . This means that ideological conflicts between cultures are essentially battles between immortality ...
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... heroic ? No doubt , one of the reasons Becker has never found a mass audience is because he shames us with the knowledge of how easily we will shed blood to purchase the assurance of our own righteousness . He reveals how our need to ...
... heroic ? No doubt , one of the reasons Becker has never found a mass audience is because he shames us with the knowledge of how easily we will shed blood to purchase the assurance of our own righteousness . He reveals how our need to ...
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... heroic individual can choose to despair or to make a Kierkegaardian leap and trust in the “ sacrosanct vitality of the cosmos , ” in the unknown god of life whose mys- terious purpose is expressed in the overwhelming drama of cosmic ...
... heroic individual can choose to despair or to make a Kierkegaardian leap and trust in the “ sacrosanct vitality of the cosmos , ” in the unknown god of life whose mys- terious purpose is expressed in the overwhelming drama of cosmic ...
Table des matières
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9 | |
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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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