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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... idea of death , the fear of it , haunts the human animal like nothing else ; it is a mainspring of human activity - activity designed largely to avoid the fatality of death , to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final ...
... idea of death , the fear of it , haunts the human animal like nothing else ; it is a mainspring of human activity - activity designed largely to avoid the fatality of death , to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final ...
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... ideas , toward a simplification of needless intellectual complexity . Sometimes this makes for big lies that resolve ... idea of heroism ; but in “ normal ” scholarly times we never thought of making much out of it , of parading it , or ...
... ideas , toward a simplification of needless intellectual complexity . Sometimes this makes for big lies that resolve ... idea of heroism ; but in “ normal ” scholarly times we never thought of making much out of it , of parading it , or ...
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... idea of " narcissism . " As Erich Fromm has so well reminded us , this idea is one of Freud's great and lasting contributions . Freud discovered that each of us repeats the tragedy of the mythical Greek Narcissus : we are hopelessly ...
... idea of " narcissism . " As Erich Fromm has so well reminded us , this idea is one of Freud's great and lasting contributions . Freud discovered that each of us repeats the tragedy of the mythical Greek Narcissus : we are hopelessly ...
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... idea of his own worth , an idea composed of sounds , words , and images , in the air , in the mind , on paper . And this means that man's natural yearning for organismic activity , the pleasures of incorpora- tion and expansion , can be ...
... idea of his own worth , an idea composed of sounds , words , and images , in the air , in the mind , on paper . And this means that man's natural yearning for organismic activity , the pleasures of incorpora- tion and expansion , can be ...
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... ideas from their lives. As we shall see further on, it was Otto Rank who showed psychologically this religious nature of all human cultural creation; and more recently the idea was revived by Norman O. Brown in his Life Against Death ...
... ideas from their lives. As we shall see further on, it was Otto Rank who showed psychologically this religious nature of all human cultural creation; and more recently the idea was revived by Norman O. Brown in his Life Against Death ...
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