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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... mystery , and experience great wonder . And the fact that bags of particles governed by physical law can do all this fills me with a deep sense of gratitude . Gratitude for being a small if transient part of the human story . Gratitude ...
... mystery , and experience great wonder . And the fact that bags of particles governed by physical law can do all this fills me with a deep sense of gratitude . Gratitude for being a small if transient part of the human story . Gratitude ...
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... mystery of my death and , therefore , my life . I will carry for a lifetime the images of Ernest's courage , his clarity purchased at the cost of enduring pain , and the manner in which his passion for ideas held death at bay for a ...
... mystery of my death and , therefore , my life . I will carry for a lifetime the images of Ernest's courage , his clarity purchased at the cost of enduring pain , and the manner in which his passion for ideas held death at bay for a ...
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... mystery cults of the Eastern Mediterranean , which were cults of death and resurrection . The divine hero of each of these cults was one who had come back from the dead . And as we know today from the research into ancient myths and ...
... mystery cults of the Eastern Mediterranean , which were cults of death and resurrection . The divine hero of each of these cults was one who had come back from the dead . And as we know today from the research into ancient myths and ...
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... mystery for him; he doesn't even know what a clock is. Nor is he a functioning adult animal who can work and procreate, do the serious things he sees happening around him: he can't “do like father” in any way. He is a prodigy in limbo ...
... mystery for him; he doesn't even know what a clock is. Nor is he a functioning adult animal who can work and procreate, do the serious things he sees happening around him: he can't “do like father” in any way. He is a prodigy in limbo ...
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... mystery ; and fantasies and hallucinations of mixtures between the two , the impossible attempt to compromise between bodies and symbols . We shall see in a few pages how sexuality enters in with its very definite focus , to further ...
... mystery ; and fantasies and hallucinations of mixtures between the two , the impossible attempt to compromise between bodies and symbols . We shall see in a few pages how sexuality enters in with its very definite focus , to further ...
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