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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... Terror of Death 11 CHAPTER THREE : CHAPTER FOUR : The Recasting of Some Basic Psychoanalytic Ideas Human Character as a Vital Lie 25 47 CHAPTER FIVE : The Psychoanalyst Kierkegaard 67 CHAPTER SIX : The Problem of Freud's Character ...
... Terror of Death 11 CHAPTER THREE : CHAPTER FOUR : The Recasting of Some Basic Psychoanalytic Ideas Human Character as a Vital Lie 25 47 CHAPTER FIVE : The Psychoanalyst Kierkegaard 67 CHAPTER SIX : The Problem of Freud's Character ...
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... terror delivered by our awareness of life's mor- tality drives us to value schemas for transcending death , whether through promises of an eternal afterlife , or continuance through a chain of descen- dants , or membership in enduring ...
... terror delivered by our awareness of life's mor- tality drives us to value schemas for transcending death , whether through promises of an eternal afterlife , or continuance through a chain of descen- dants , or membership in enduring ...
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... terror of death . Human beings are naturally anxious because we are ultimately helpless and abandoned in a world where we are fated to die . “ This is the terror : to have emerged from nothing , to have a name , consciousness of self ...
... terror of death . Human beings are naturally anxious because we are ultimately helpless and abandoned in a world where we are fated to die . “ This is the terror : to have emerged from nothing , to have a name , consciousness of self ...
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... terror . The existential hero who follows this way of self - analysis differs from the average person in knowing that he / she is obsessed . Instead of hiding within the illusions of character , he sees his impotence and vulnerability ...
... terror . The existential hero who follows this way of self - analysis differs from the average person in knowing that he / she is obsessed . Instead of hiding within the illusions of character , he sees his impotence and vulnerability ...
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... terror of admitting what one is doing to earn his self - esteem . This is why human heroics is a blind drivenness that burns people up ; in passionate people , a screaming for glory as uncritical and reflexive as the howling of a dog ...
... terror of admitting what one is doing to earn his self - esteem . This is why human heroics is a blind drivenness that burns people up ; in passionate people , a screaming for glory as uncritical and reflexive as the howling of a dog ...
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