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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... tion of the limitations of psychoanalysis and of reason itself in helping man transcend his conflicting fears of both death and life . . . his book will be acknowledged as a major work . ” cc -Publishers Weekly to read it is to know the ...
... tion of the limitations of psychoanalysis and of reason itself in helping man transcend his conflicting fears of both death and life . . . his book will be acknowledged as a major work . ” cc -Publishers Weekly to read it is to know the ...
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... tion of experience, to form, to greater meaningfulness. One of the reasons, I believe, that knowledge is in a state of useless overproduction is that it is strewn all over the place, spoken in a thousand competitive voices. Its ...
... tion of experience, to form, to greater meaningfulness. One of the reasons, I believe, that knowledge is in a state of useless overproduction is that it is strewn all over the place, spoken in a thousand competitive voices. Its ...
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... tion and expansion , can be fed limitlessly in the domain of symbols and so into immortality . The single organism can expand into dimensions of worlds and times without moving a physical limb ; it can take eternity into itself even as ...
... tion and expansion , can be fed limitlessly in the domain of symbols and so into immortality . The single organism can expand into dimensions of worlds and times without moving a physical limb ; it can take eternity into itself even as ...
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... 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 anthropologists ...
... 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 anthropologists ...
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... tion normally . It must be properly repressed to keep us living with any modicum of comfort . We know very well that to repress means more than to put away and to forget that which was put away and the place where we put it . It means ...
... tion normally . It must be properly repressed to keep us living with any modicum of comfort . We know very well that to repress means more than to put away and to forget that which was put away and the place where we put it . It means ...
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