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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... inner feelings , an excruciating inner yearning for life and self - expression - and with all this yet to die . " Elisabeth Kübler - Ross and Ernest Becker were strange allies in foment- ing the cultural revolution that brought death ...
... inner feelings , an excruciating inner yearning for life and self - expression - and with all this yet to die . " Elisabeth Kübler - Ross and Ernest Becker were strange allies in foment- ing the cultural revolution that brought death ...
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... inner organic recesses he feels 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 ...
... inner organic recesses he feels 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 ...
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... inner world that we had never realized : namely , that it was more filled with ter- ror , the more the child was different from other animals . We could say that fear is programmed into the lower animals by ready - made instincts ; but ...
... inner world that we had never realized : namely , that it was more filled with ter- ror , the more the child was different from other animals . We could say that fear is programmed into the lower animals by ready - made instincts ; but ...
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... at least some of the time — lives with an inner sense of chaos that other animals are immune to.26 Ironically , even when the child makes out real cause 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 18 6/26/23 10:58 AM 18 THE DENIAL OF DEATH.
... at least some of the time — lives with an inner sense of chaos that other animals are immune to.26 Ironically , even when the child makes out real cause 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 18 6/26/23 10:58 AM 18 THE DENIAL OF DEATH.
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... Inner Sustainment.”30 It is a sense of bodily con- fidence in the face of experience that sees the person more easily through severe life crises and even sharp personality changes; it almost seems to take the place of the directive ...
... Inner Sustainment.”30 It is a sense of bodily con- fidence in the face of experience that sees the person more easily through severe life crises and even sharp personality changes; it almost seems to take the place of the directive ...
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