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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... instinct for reality . . has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism . " 1 Not only the popular mind knew , but philosophers of all ages , and in our culture especially Emerson and Nietzsche - which is why we still ...
... instinct for reality . . has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism . " 1 Not only the popular mind knew , but philosophers of all ages , and in our culture especially Emerson and Nietzsche - which is why we still ...
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... instinct of self - preservation , which functions as a constant drive to maintain life and to master the dan- gers that threaten life : Such constant expenditure of psychological energy on the business of preserving life would be ...
... instinct of self - preservation , which functions as a constant drive to maintain life and to master the dan- gers that threaten life : Such constant expenditure of psychological energy on the business of preserving life would be ...
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... instinct of self - preservation , as well as our utter obliviousness to this fear in our conscious life : Therefore ... instincts ; but an animal who has no instincts has no programmed fears . Man's fears are fashioned out of the ways in ...
... instinct of self - preservation , as well as our utter obliviousness to this fear in our conscious life : Therefore ... instincts ; but an animal who has no instincts has no programmed fears . Man's fears are fashioned out of the ways in ...
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... instincts of lower animals. One can't help thinking of Freud again, who had more inner sustainment than most men, thanks to his mother and favorable early environment; he knew the confidence and courage that it gave to a man, and he ...
... instincts of lower animals. One can't help thinking of Freud again, who had more inner sustainment than most men, thanks to his mother and favorable early environment; he knew the confidence and courage that it gave to a man, and he ...
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... instincts . If they pause at all , it is only a physical pause ; inside they are anonymous , and even their faces have no name . They live in a world without time , pulsating , as it were , in a state of dumb being . This is what has ...
... instincts . If they pause at all , it is only a physical pause ; inside they are anonymous , and even their faces have no name . They live in a world without time , pulsating , as it were , in a state of dumb being . This is what has ...
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