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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... 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 . " -The ...
... 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 . " -The ...
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... nature of physical reality , once noted that there are only two things that might be infinite : the universe and human stupidity . And , Einstein added , he wasn't sure about the universe . As Einstein intended , the assessment is ...
... nature of physical reality , once noted that there are only two things that might be infinite : the universe and human stupidity . And , Einstein added , he wasn't sure about the universe . As Einstein intended , the assessment is ...
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... nature with a towering majesty , and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order to blindly and dumbly rot and disappear forever . ” I was a college sophomore when my older sister told me about a book I needed to read that ...
... nature with a towering majesty , and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order to blindly and dumbly rot and disappear forever . ” I was a college sophomore when my older sister told me about a book I needed to read that ...
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... nature's fundamental particles combined according to one particular pattern or another . There is no élan vital necessary to endow a configuration of matter with life ; there is no mind - stuff necessary to endow a configu- ration of ...
... nature's fundamental particles combined according to one particular pattern or another . There is no élan vital necessary to endow a configuration of matter with life ; there is no mind - stuff necessary to endow a configu- ration of ...
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... nature has little in common with Walt Disney . 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 ...
... nature has little in common with Walt Disney . 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 ...
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