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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... Mother Nature is a brutal bitch , red in tooth and claw , who destroys what she creates . We live , he says , in a creation in which the routine activity for organisms is " tearing others apart with teeth of all types - biting ...
... Mother Nature is a brutal bitch , red in tooth and claw , who destroys what she creates . We live , he says , in a creation in which the routine activity for organisms is " tearing others apart with teeth of all types - biting ...
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... mother , experiences loneliness when she is absent , frustration when he is deprived of gratification , irritation at hunger and discomfort , and so on . If he were abandoned to himself his world would drop away , and his organism must ...
... mother , experiences loneliness when she is absent , frustration when he is deprived of gratification , irritation at hunger and discomfort , and so on . If he were abandoned to himself his world would drop away , and his organism must ...
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... mother and went on to pronounce death the “muse of philosophy.” If you have a “sour” character structure or especially tragic experiences, then you are bound to be pessimistic. One psychologist remarked to me that the whole idea of the ...
... mother and went on to pronounce death the “muse of philosophy.” If you have a “sour” character structure or especially tragic experiences, then you are bound to be pessimistic. One psychologist remarked to me that the whole idea of the ...
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... mother . At the same time , he knew that his father was his competitor , and he held in check a murderous aggressiveness toward him . The reason he held it in check was that he knew the father was physically stronger than he and that ...
... mother . At the same time , he knew that his father was his competitor , and he held in check a murderous aggressiveness toward him . The reason he held it in check was that he knew the father was physically stronger than he and that ...
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... mother , but as his later writings recognize , a prod- uct of the conflict of ambivalence and an attempt to overcome that conflict by narcissistic inflation . The essence of the Oedipal complex is the project of becoming God - in ...
... mother , but as his later writings recognize , a prod- uct of the conflict of ambivalence and an attempt to overcome that conflict by narcissistic inflation . The essence of the Oedipal complex is the project of becoming God - in ...
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