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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... thing more presumptuous than intruding into the private world of the dying would be to refuse his invitation . Although we had never met , Ernest and I fell immediately into deep conversation . The nearness of his death and the severe ...
... thing more presumptuous than intruding into the private world of the dying would be to refuse his invitation . Although we had never met , Ernest and I fell immediately into deep conversation . The nearness of his death and the severe ...
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... thing that I hope my confrontation of Rank will do is to send the reader directly to his books. There is no substitute for reading Rank. My personal copies of his books are marked in the covers with an uncommon abundance of notes ...
... thing that I hope my confrontation of Rank will do is to send the reader directly to his books. There is no substitute for reading Rank. My personal copies of his books are marked in the covers with an uncommon abundance of notes ...
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... things that man creates in society are of lasting worth and meaning , that they outlive or outshine death and decay ... thing within the ways in which society is now set up ? “ They are asking for the impossible ” is the way we usually ...
... things that man creates in society are of lasting worth and meaning , that they outlive or outshine death and decay ... thing within the ways in which society is now set up ? “ They are asking for the impossible ” is the way we usually ...
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... thing we have to do with heroism is to lay bare its underside , show what gives human heroics its specific nature and impetus . Here we intro- duce directly one of the great rediscoveries of modern thought : that of all things that move ...
... thing we have to do with heroism is to lay bare its underside , show what gives human heroics its specific nature and impetus . Here we intro- duce directly one of the great rediscoveries of modern thought : that of all things that move ...
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... thing for man , that we are not born with it . An increasing number of careful studies on how the actual fear of death develops in the child agree fairly well that the child has no knowledge of death 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 12 ...
... thing for man , that we are not born with it . An increasing number of careful studies on how the actual fear of death develops in the child agree fairly well that the child has no knowledge of death 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 12 ...
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