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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... psychological insights about 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 ...
... psychological insights about 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 ...
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... PSYCHOLOGY OF HEROISM 9 CHAPTER TWO : The Terror of Death 11 CHAPTER THREE : CHAPTER FOUR : The Recasting of Some Basic Psychoanalytic Ideas Human Character as a Vital Lie 25 47 CHAPTER FIVE : The Psychoanalyst Kierkegaard 67 CHAPTER ...
... PSYCHOLOGY OF HEROISM 9 CHAPTER TWO : The Terror of Death 11 CHAPTER THREE : CHAPTER FOUR : The Recasting of Some Basic Psychoanalytic Ideas Human Character as a Vital Lie 25 47 CHAPTER FIVE : The Psychoanalyst Kierkegaard 67 CHAPTER ...
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... psychologists has amassed persuasive evidence of the influence that mortality awareness has on the decisions we make and the actions we take , bolstering Becker's ideas with substantial empirical foundation . And closer to home , my own ...
... psychologists has amassed persuasive evidence of the influence that mortality awareness has on the decisions we make and the actions we take , bolstering Becker's ideas with substantial empirical foundation . And closer to home , my own ...
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... Psychology Today in late 1973 and was placed on my desk for consideration it took me less than an hour to decide that I wanted to interview Ernest Becker . On December 6th , I called his home in Vancouver to see if he would do a ...
... Psychology Today in late 1973 and was placed on my desk for consideration it took me less than an hour to decide that I wanted to interview Ernest Becker . On December 6th , I called his home in Vancouver to see if he would do a ...
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... psychology has been to help us understand that corporations and nations may be driven by uncon- scious motives that have little to do with their stated goals . Making a killing in business or on the battlefield frequently has less to do ...
... psychology has been to help us understand that corporations and nations may be driven by uncon- scious motives that have little to do with their stated goals . Making a killing in business or on the battlefield frequently has less to do ...
Table des matières
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25 | |
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