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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... symbolically . I have not had many epiphanies , but this realization was one . Physics and mathematics were , for me , a per- sonal immortality project . Forty years later , I look back on those heady days of late - night dorm- room ...
... symbolically . I have not had many epiphanies , but this realization was one . Physics and mathematics were , for me , a per- sonal immortality project . Forty years later , I look back on those heady days of late - night dorm- room ...
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... symbolically , his cherished narcissism feeds on symbols , on an abstract idea of his own worth , an idea composed of sounds , words , and images , in the air , in the mind , on paper . And this means that man's natural yearning for ...
... symbolically , his cherished narcissism feeds on symbols , on an abstract idea of his own worth , an idea composed of sounds , words , and images , in the air , in the mind , on paper . And this means that man's natural yearning for ...
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... symbolic ac- tion system , a structure of statuses and roles , customs and rules for behavior , designed to serve as a vehicle for earthly heroism . Each script is somewhat unique , each culture has a different hero system . What the ...
... symbolic ac- tion system , a structure of statuses and roles , customs and rules for behavior , designed to serve as a vehicle for earthly heroism . Each script is somewhat unique , each culture has a different hero system . What the ...
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... symbolic form . Repression is usually . . . immediate and effective .... 25 The child is too weak to take responsibility for all this destructive feel- ing , and he can't control the magical execution of his desires . This is what we ...
... symbolic form . Repression is usually . . . immediate and effective .... 25 The child is too weak to take responsibility for all this destructive feel- ing , and he can't control the magical execution of his desires . This is what we ...
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... symbolic.1 As we shall see in Chapter Five it was Kierkegaard who forcefully introduced the existential paradox into modern psychology , with his bril- liant analysis of the Adam and Eve myth that had conveyed that paradox to the ...
... symbolic.1 As we shall see in Chapter Five it was Kierkegaard who forcefully introduced the existential paradox into modern psychology , with his bril- liant analysis of the Adam and Eve myth that had conveyed that paradox to 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