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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... kind of delight; the experts give us manageable thrills—if they thrill us at all. One thing that I hope my confrontation of Rank will do is to send the reader directly to his books. There is no substitute for reading Rank. My personal ...
... kind of delight; the experts give us manageable thrills—if they thrill us at all. One thing that I hope my confrontation of Rank will do is to send the reader directly to his books. There is no substitute for reading Rank. My personal ...
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... kind of by - product of growing up , a bit of competitiveness and selfishness of children who have been spoiled , who haven't yet grown into a generous social nature . But it is too all - absorbing and relentless to be an aberration ...
... kind of by - product of growing up , a bit of competitiveness and selfishness of children who have been spoiled , who haven't yet grown into a generous social nature . But it is too all - absorbing and relentless to be an aberration ...
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... kind of certain intuition of this “ worm at the core , " whether they admitted it or not.16 Countless other authorities - some of whom we shall parade in the following pages — belong to this school : students of the stature of Freud ...
... kind of certain intuition of this “ worm at the core , " whether they admitted it or not.16 Countless other authorities - some of whom we shall parade in the following pages — belong to this school : students of the stature of Freud ...
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... kind of grim equanimity — the " strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting " -as James put it . This is the deeper reason that Montaigne's peasant isn't trou- bled until the very end , when the Angel of Death ...
... kind of grim equanimity — the " strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting " -as James put it . This is the deeper reason that Montaigne's peasant isn't trou- bled until the very end , when the Angel of Death ...
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... kind ever fashioned by man trying to understand himself . Ferenczi had already seen behind the tight - lipped masks , the smiling masks , the earnest masks , the satisfied masks that people use to bluff the world and themselves about ...
... kind ever fashioned by man trying to understand himself . Ferenczi had already seen behind the tight - lipped masks , the smiling masks , the earnest masks , the satisfied masks that people use to bluff the world and themselves about ...
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