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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... represents a massive detailing and clarification of the problem of human heroism . This perspective sets the tone for the seriousness of our discussion : we now have the scientific underpinning for a true understanding of the nature of ...
... represents a massive detailing and clarification of the problem of human heroism . This perspective sets the tone for the seriousness of our discussion : we now have the scientific underpinning for a true understanding of the nature of ...
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... representing in himself all of life . This is the reason for the daily and usually excruciating struggle with siblings : the child cannot allow him- self to be second - best or devalued , much less left out . “ You gave him the biggest ...
... representing in himself all of life . This is the reason for the daily and usually excruciating struggle with siblings : the child cannot allow him- self to be second - best or devalued , much less left out . “ You gave him the biggest ...
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... represent agreed heroism . The great perplexity of our time , the churning of our age , is that the youth have sensed — for better or for worse — a great social - historical truth : that just as there are useless self - sacrifices in ...
... represent agreed heroism . The great perplexity of our time , the churning of our age , is that the youth have sensed — for better or for worse — a great social - historical truth : that just as there are useless self - sacrifices in ...
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... represents : that in fact , he is nothing but body so far as nature is concerned . Nature's values are bodily values , human values are mental values , and though they take the loftiest flights they are built upon excrement , impossible ...
... represents : that in fact , he is nothing but body so far as nature is concerned . Nature's values are bodily values , human values are mental values , and though they take the loftiest flights they are built upon excrement , impossible ...
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... represents man's utter bafflement at the sheer non - sense of creation : to fashion the sublime miracle of the human face , the mysterium tremendum of radiant feminine beauty , the veritable goddesses that beauti- ful women are ; to ...
... represents man's utter bafflement at the sheer non - sense of creation : to fashion the sublime miracle of the human face , the mysterium tremendum of radiant feminine beauty , the veritable goddesses that beauti- ful women are ; to ...
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