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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... CHAPTER ELEVEN : Psychology and Religion : What Is the Heroic Individual ? References Index 253 255 285 307 THE DENIAL OF DEATH Foreword to the 2023 Edition Albert 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 11 6/26/23 10:58 AM.
... CHAPTER ELEVEN : Psychology and Religion : What Is the Heroic Individual ? References Index 253 255 285 307 THE DENIAL OF DEATH Foreword to the 2023 Edition Albert 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 11 6/26/23 10:58 AM.
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... religion. I have tried to avoid moving against and negating any point of view, no matter how personally antipathetic to me, if it seems to have in it a core of truthfulness. I have had the growing realization over the past few years ...
... religion. I have tried to avoid moving against and negating any point of view, no matter how personally antipathetic to me, if it seems to have in it a core of truthfulness. I have had the growing realization over the past few years ...
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... religion ; but even more than these two , Rank's system has implications for the deepest and broadest development of the social sciences , implications that have only begun to be tapped . Paul Roazen , writing about " The Legend of ...
... religion ; but even more than these two , Rank's system has implications for the deepest and broadest development of the social sciences , implications that have only begun to be tapped . Paul Roazen , writing about " The Legend of ...
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... religion . One reason is that Jung is so prominent and has so many effective interpreters , while Rank is hardly known and has had hardly anyone to speak for him . Another reason is that although Rank's thought is difficult , it is ...
... religion . One reason is that Jung is so prominent and has so many effective interpreters , while Rank is hardly known and has had hardly anyone to speak for him . Another reason is that although Rank's thought is difficult , it is ...
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... religion too: religion is no longer valid as a hero system, and so the youth scorn it. If traditional culture is discredited as heroics, then the church that supports that culture automatically discredits itself. If the church, on the ...
... religion too: religion is no longer valid as a hero system, and so the youth scorn it. If traditional culture is discredited as heroics, then the church that supports that culture automatically discredits itself. If the church, on the ...
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