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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... narcissism ; most of the time , for most of us , this is still a work- able definition of luck . It is one of the meaner aspects of narcissism that we feel that practically everyone is expendable except ourselves . We should feel ...
... narcissism ; most of the time , for most of us , this is still a work- able definition of luck . It is one of the meaner aspects of narcissism that we feel that practically everyone is expendable except ourselves . We should feel ...
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... narcissism feeds on symbols , on an abstract idea of his own worth , an idea composed of sounds , words , and images , in the air , in the mind , on paper . And this means that man's natural yearning for organismic activity , the ...
... narcissism feeds on symbols , on an abstract idea of his own worth , an idea composed of sounds , words , and images , in the air , in the mind , on paper . And this means that man's natural yearning for organismic activity , the ...
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... narcissism and on the child's need for self-esteem as the condition for his life. Society itself is a codified hero system, which means that society every- where is a living myth of the significance of human life, a defiant creation of ...
... narcissism and on the child's need for self-esteem as the condition for his life. Society itself is a codified hero system, which means that society every- where is a living myth of the significance of human life, a defiant creation of ...
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... that his repression of the idea of his own death is made easy for him because he is fortified against it in his very narcissistic vitality. This type of 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 21 6/26/23 10:58 AM The Terror of Death 21.
... that his repression of the idea of his own death is made easy for him because he is fortified against it in his very narcissistic vitality. This type of 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 21 6/26/23 10:58 AM The Terror of Death 21.
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Ernest Becker. against it in his very narcissistic vitality. This type of character probably helped Freud to say that the unconscious does not know death. Anyway, we know that basic narcissism is increased when one's childhood ...
Ernest Becker. against it in his very narcissistic vitality. This type of character probably helped Freud to say that the unconscious does not know death. Anyway, we know that basic narcissism is increased when one's childhood ...
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