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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... 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 amusing , but all the ...
... 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 amusing , but all the ...
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... reality might mean for our sense of how we fit into some overarching cosmic order . Becker's book , my sister intuited , might play a part in that journey . She was right . Profoundly so . Although I am not a believer in a one - size ...
... reality might mean for our sense of how we fit into some overarching cosmic order . Becker's book , my sister intuited , might play a part in that journey . She was right . Profoundly so . Although I am not a believer in a one - size ...
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... reality — all scientific vectors point firmly in this direction . Darwin , and the stunning biological insights he inspired , revealed a deep continuity among all life on planet earth . The physicalist perspective goes further and ...
... reality — all scientific vectors point firmly in this direction . Darwin , and the stunning biological insights he inspired , revealed a deep continuity among all life on planet earth . The physicalist perspective goes further and ...
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... reality with mind and body , with reason and emotion , refined faculties that have shaped words and images and structures and sounds to express our longings and frustrations , our confusions and revelations , our failures and triumphs ...
... reality with mind and body , with reason and emotion , refined faculties that have shaped words and images and structures and sounds to express our longings and frustrations , our confusions and revelations , our failures and triumphs ...
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... reality than with the need for assuring ourselves that we have achieved something of lasting worth . Consider , for instance , the recent war in Vietnam in which the United States was driven not by any realis- tic economic or political ...
... reality than with the need for assuring ourselves that we have achieved something of lasting worth . Consider , for instance , the recent war in Vietnam in which the United States was driven not by any realis- tic economic or political ...
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