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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... human condition can and should and must shift to a celebration of the fact that our very particular particulate arrangement gives us enviable powers : we can explore reality with mind and body , with reason and emotion , refined ...
... human condition can and should and must shift to a celebration of the fact that our very particular particulate arrangement gives us enviable powers : we can explore reality with mind and body , with reason and emotion , refined ...
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... human condition it is not surprising that Becker offers only a palliative prescription . Expect no miracle cure , no ... human scapegoat but something imper- sonal like poverty , disease , oppression , or natural disasters . By making ...
... human condition it is not surprising that Becker offers only a palliative prescription . Expect no miracle cure , no ... human scapegoat but something imper- sonal like poverty , disease , oppression , or natural disasters . By making ...
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... human condition . To be sure , primitives often celebrate death — as Hocart and others have shown - because they believe that death is the ultimate pro- motion , the final ritual elevation to a higher form of life , to the enjoyment of ...
... human condition . To be sure , primitives often celebrate death — as Hocart and others have shown - because they believe that death is the ultimate pro- motion , the final ritual elevation to a higher form of life , to the enjoyment of ...
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... human living conditions on the planet were worse than ever. Why, then, the reader may ask, add still another weighty ... condition, in the belief that the time is ripe for a synthesis that covers the best thought in many fields, from the ...
... human living conditions on the planet were worse than ever. Why, then, the reader may ask, add still another weighty ... condition, in the belief that the time is ripe for a synthesis that covers the best thought in many fields, from the ...
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... human condition : it is not that children are vicious , selfish , or domineering . It is that they so openly express man's tragic destiny : he must desperately justify himself as an object of primary value in the universe ; he must ...
... human condition : it is not that children are vicious , selfish , or domineering . It is that they so openly express man's tragic destiny : he must desperately justify himself as an object of primary value in the universe ; he must ...
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