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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... sexuality enters in with its very definite focus , to further confuse and complicate the child's world . To grow up at all is to conceal the mass of internal scar tissue that throbs in our dreams . So we see that the two dimensions of ...
... sexuality enters in with its very definite focus , to further confuse and complicate the child's world . To grow up at all is to conceal the mass of internal scar tissue that throbs in our dreams . So we see that the two dimensions of ...
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... sexual functions are experienced as excretions and as decay . ” This degree of fragmentation is extreme , but we all see the world through obsessive eyes at least part of the time and to some degree ; and as Freud said , not only ...
... sexual functions are experienced as excretions and as decay . ” This degree of fragmentation is extreme , but we all see the world through obsessive eyes at least part of the time and to some degree ; and as Freud said , not only ...
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Ernest Becker. to his stark sexual formulas . No matter how much he changed later in life , he always kept alive the ... sexuality and he even wanted to possess his mother . At the same time , he knew that his father was his competitor ...
Ernest Becker. to his stark sexual formulas . No matter how much he changed later in life , he always kept alive the ... sexuality and he even wanted to possess his mother . At the same time , he knew that his father was his competitor ...
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... sexual matters are secondary and derivative , as Brown says : Thus again it appears that the sexual organizations , pregenital and genital , do not correspond to the natural distribution of Eros in the human body : they represent a ...
... sexual matters are secondary and derivative , as Brown says : Thus again it appears that the sexual organizations , pregenital and genital , do not correspond to the natural distribution of Eros in the human body : they represent a ...
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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