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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... immortality project . Forty years later , I look back on those heady days of late - night dorm- room philosophizing with a touch of nostalgia for the open horizons of youth , as well as with a healthy dose of eye rolling . Even so ...
... immortality project . Forty years later , I look back on those heady days of late - night dorm- room philosophizing with a touch of nostalgia for the open horizons of youth , as well as with a healthy dose of eye rolling . Even so ...
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... . We repress our bodies to purchase a soul that time cannot destroy ; we sacrifice pleasure to buy immortality ; we encapsulate ourselves 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 22 6/26/23 10:58 AM xxii THE DENIAL OF DEATH.
... . We repress our bodies to purchase a soul that time cannot destroy ; we sacrifice pleasure to buy immortality ; we encapsulate ourselves 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 22 6/26/23 10:58 AM xxii THE DENIAL OF DEATH.
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... immortality projects , holy wars . One of Becker's lasting contributions to social psychology has been to help us understand that corporations and nations may be driven by uncon- scious motives that have little to do with their stated ...
... immortality projects , holy wars . One of Becker's lasting contributions to social psychology has been to help us understand that corporations and nations may be driven by uncon- scious motives that have little to do with their stated ...
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... immortality - symbol ( to use Rank's way of under- standing their bitterness and pettiness ) . Admittedly , Rank's Trauma of Birth gave his detractors an easy handle on him , a justified reason for disparaging his stature ; it was an ...
... immortality - symbol ( to use Rank's way of under- standing their bitterness and pettiness ) . Admittedly , Rank's Trauma of Birth gave his detractors an easy handle on him , a justified reason for disparaging his stature ; it was an ...
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... immortal . None of these observations implies human guile . Man does not seem able to " help " his selfishness ; it seems to come from his animal nature . Through countless ages of evolution the organism has had to protect its own ...
... immortal . None of these observations implies human guile . Man does not seem able to " help " his selfishness ; it seems to come from his animal nature . Through countless ages of evolution the organism has had to protect its own ...
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