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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... reflects the basic human condition : it is not that children are vicious , selfish , or domineering . It is that ... reflect privately our sense of heroic worth . Or by having only a little better home in the neighborhood , a bigger car ...
... reflects the basic human condition : it is not that children are vicious , selfish , or domineering . It is that ... reflect privately our sense of heroic worth . Or by having only a little better home in the neighborhood , a bigger car ...
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... reflects human value : a temple , a cathedral , a totem pole , a skyscraper , a family that spans three generations . The hope and be- lief is that the things that man creates in society are of lasting worth and meaning , that they ...
... reflects human value : a temple , a cathedral , a totem pole , a skyscraper , a family that spans three generations . The hope and be- lief is that the things that man creates in society are of lasting worth and meaning , that they ...
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... reflects the dualism of man's condition—his self and his body. Anality and its problems arise in childhood because it is then that the child already makes the alarming discov- ery that his body is strange and fallible and has a definite ...
... reflects the dualism of man's condition—his self and his body. Anality and its problems arise in childhood because it is then that the child already makes the alarming discov- ery that his body is strange and fallible and has a definite ...
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... reflect man's horror of his own basic animal con- dition , a condition that he cannot - especially as a child — understand and a condition that — as an adult — he cannot accept . The guilt that he feels over bodily processes and urges ...
... reflect man's horror of his own basic animal con- dition , a condition that he cannot - especially as a child — understand and a condition that — as an adult — he cannot accept . The guilt that he feels over bodily processes and urges ...
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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