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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... man transcend his conflicting fears of both death and life . . . his book will be acknowledged as a major work ... man's meaningful , sane survival . . . . ” -Minneapolis Tribune 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 1 6/26/23 10:58 AM ...
... man transcend his conflicting fears of both death and life . . . his book will be acknowledged as a major work ... man's meaningful , sane survival . . . . ” -Minneapolis Tribune 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 1 6/26/23 10:58 AM ...
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... man ' . . . a moving , important and necessary work that speaks not only to the social scientists and theolo- gians but to ... man's life . It puts together what others have torn in pieces and rendered useless . It is one of those rare ...
... man ' . . . a moving , important and necessary work that speaks not only to the social scientists and theolo- gians but to ... man's life . It puts together what others have torn in pieces and rendered useless . It is one of those rare ...
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... man's nature and his incessant efforts to escape the burden of life — and death .... It is hard to over - estimate the importance of this book ; Becker succeeds brilliantly in what he sets out to do , and the effort was necessary ...
... man's nature and his incessant efforts to escape the burden of life — and death .... It is hard to over - estimate the importance of this book ; Becker succeeds brilliantly in what he sets out to do , and the effort was necessary ...
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... man's animal nature , not territorial aggression , or in- nate selfishness , but our need to gain self - esteem , deny our mortality , and achieve a heroic self - image . Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst . We want to ...
... man's animal nature , not territorial aggression , or in- nate selfishness , but our need to gain self - esteem , deny our mortality , and achieve a heroic self - image . Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst . We want to ...
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... man and on the human condition, in the belief that the time is ripe for a synthesis that covers the best thought in many ... man's knowledge is not to oppose and to demolish opposing views, but to include them in a larger theoretical ...
... man and on the human condition, in the belief that the time is ripe for a synthesis that covers the best thought in many ... man's knowledge is not to oppose and to demolish opposing views, but to include them in a larger theoretical ...
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