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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... magical , religious , and primitive or secular , scientific , and civilized . It is still a myth- ical hero - system in which people serve in order to earn a feeling of primary value , of cosmic specialness , of ultimate usefulness to ...
... magical , religious , and primitive or secular , scientific , and civilized . It is still a myth- ical hero - system in which people serve in order to earn a feeling of primary value , of cosmic specialness , of ultimate usefulness to ...
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... magical powers , real omnipotence . If he experiences pain , hunger , or discomfort , all he has to do is to scream and he is relieved and lulled by gen- tle , loving sounds . He is a magician and a telepath who has only to mumble and ...
... magical powers , real omnipotence . If he experiences pain , hunger , or discomfort , all he has to do is to scream and he is relieved and lulled by gen- tle , loving sounds . He is a magician and a telepath who has only to mumble and ...
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... magical thoughts . I don't want to seem to make an exact picture of processes that are still unclear to us or to make out that all children live in the same world and have the same problems ; also , I wouldn't want to make the child's ...
... magical thoughts . I don't want to seem to make an exact picture of processes that are still unclear to us or to make out that all children live in the same world and have the same problems ; also , I wouldn't want to make the child's ...
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... magical word for winning arguments ; it is a real phenomenon , and we have been able to study many of its workings . This study gives it legitimacy as a scientific concept and makes it a more - or - less dependable ally in our argument ...
... magical word for winning arguments ; it is a real phenomenon , and we have been able to study many of its workings . This study gives it legitimacy as a scientific concept and makes it a more - or - less dependable ally in our argument ...
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... magical omnipotence , a sense of his own indestructibility , a feeling of proven power and secure support . He can imagine himself , deep down , to be eternal . We might say that his repression of the idea of his own death is made easy ...
... magical omnipotence , a sense of his own indestructibility , a feeling of proven power and secure support . He can imagine himself , deep down , to be eternal . We might say that his repression of the idea of his own death is made easy ...
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