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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... live for more than a week Unexpectedly , she called the next day to say that Ernest would like to do the conversation if I could get there while he still had strength and clarity . So I went to Vancouver with speed and trembling ...
... live for more than a week Unexpectedly , she called the next day to say that Ernest would like to do the conversation if I could get there while he still had strength and clarity . So I went to Vancouver with speed and trembling ...
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... live , he says , in a creation in which the routine activity for organisms is " tearing others apart with teeth of all types - biting , grinding flesh , plant stalks , bones between molars , pushing the pulp greedily down the gullet ...
... live , he says , in a creation in which the routine activity for organisms is " tearing others apart with teeth of all types - biting , grinding flesh , plant stalks , bones between molars , pushing the pulp greedily down the gullet ...
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... live in ugliness , and not the natural animal wallowing . And this means that evil itself is amenable to critical analysis and , conceivably , to the sway of reason . " If , in some distant future , reason conquers our habit of self ...
... live in ugliness , and not the natural animal wallowing . And this means that evil itself is amenable to critical analysis and , conceivably , to the sway of reason . " If , in some distant future , reason conquers our habit of self ...
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... live in. This is the dilemma of religion in our time. Conclusion What I have tried to do in this brief introduction is to suggest that the problem of heroics is the central one of human life, that it goes deeper into human nature than ...
... live in. This is the dilemma of religion in our time. Conclusion What I have tried to do in this brief introduction is to suggest that the problem of heroics is the central one of human life, that it goes deeper into human nature than ...
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