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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... truly important books of the year . Professor Becker writes with power and brilliant insight . . . moves unflinchingly toward a masterful articula- tion of the limitations of psychoanalysis and of reason itself in helping man transcend ...
... truly important books of the year . Professor Becker writes with power and brilliant insight . . . moves unflinchingly toward a masterful articula- tion of the limitations of psychoanalysis and of reason itself in helping man transcend ...
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... truly heroic , timeless , and supremely meaningful . The crisis of modern society is precisely that the youth no longer feel heroic in the plan for action that their culture has set up . They don't believe it is empirically true to the ...
... truly heroic , timeless , and supremely meaningful . The crisis of modern society is precisely that the youth no longer feel heroic in the plan for action that their culture has set up . They don't believe it is empirically true to the ...
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... truly religious as are scientific and consumer “religion,” no matter how much they may try to disguise themselves by omitting religious and spiritual ideas from their lives. As we shall see further on, it was Otto Rank who showed ...
... truly religious as are scientific and consumer “religion,” no matter how much they may try to disguise themselves by omitting religious and spiritual ideas from their lives. As we shall see further on, it was Otto Rank who showed ...
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... truly Number One in creation. The result is that some people have more of what the psychoanalyst Leon J. Saul has aptly called “Inner Sustainment.”30 It is a sense of bodily con- fidence in the face of experience that sees the person ...
... truly Number One in creation. The result is that some people have more of what the psychoanalyst Leon J. Saul has aptly called “Inner Sustainment.”30 It is a sense of bodily con- fidence in the face of experience that sees the person ...
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... truly amazing . Man's Existential Dilemma We always knew that there was something peculiar about man , something deep down that characterized him and set him apart from the other an- imals . It was something that had to go right to his ...
... truly amazing . Man's Existential Dilemma We always knew that there was something peculiar about man , something deep down that characterized him and set him apart from the other an- imals . It was something that had to go right to his ...
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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