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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... HEROISM CHAPTER ELEVEN : Psychology and Religion : What Is the Heroic Individual ? References Index 253 255 285 307 THE DENIAL OF DEATH Foreword to the 2023 Edition Albert 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 11 6/26/23 10:58 AM.
... HEROISM CHAPTER ELEVEN : Psychology and Religion : What Is the Heroic Individual ? References Index 253 255 285 307 THE DENIAL OF DEATH Foreword to the 2023 Edition Albert 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 11 6/26/23 10:58 AM.
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... individuals and as societies seeks to palliate what would otherwise be a debilitating recognition that death awaits — placed my own passions in their proper perspective . I recognized that my fascination with mathematical equations , my ...
... individuals and as societies seeks to palliate what would otherwise be a debilitating recognition that death awaits — placed my own passions in their proper perspective . I recognized that my fascination with mathematical equations , my ...
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... individual and nation . At what cost do we purchase the assurance that we are 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 ...
... individual and nation . At what cost do we purchase the assurance that we are 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 ...
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... 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 evolution ...
... 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 evolution ...
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... individual psychology; in another book I will sketch his schema for a psychology of history. There are several ways of looking at Rank. Some see him as a bril- liant coworker of Freud, a member of the early circle of psychoanalysis who ...
... individual psychology; in another book I will sketch his schema for a psychology of history. There are several ways of looking at Rank. Some see him as a bril- liant coworker of Freud, a member of the early circle of psychoanalysis who ...
Table des matières
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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