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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... truth in the world— an over - production which apparently cannot be consumed ! -OTTO RANK The prospect of death , Dr ... truth that cannot be consumed . For centuries man lived in the belief that truth was slim and elusive and ...
... truth in the world— an over - production which apparently cannot be consumed ! -OTTO RANK The prospect of death , Dr ... truth that cannot be consumed . For centuries man lived in the belief that truth was slim and elusive and ...
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Ernest Becker. in the belief that truth was slim and elusive and that once he found it the troubles of mankind would be over. And here we are in the closing decades of the 20th century, choking on truth. There has been so much brilliant ...
Ernest Becker. in the belief that truth was slim and elusive and that once he found it the troubles of mankind would be over. And here we are in the closing decades of the 20th century, choking on truth. There has been so much brilliant ...
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... truth in his position , no matter how extremely he has formulated it . The problem is to find the truth underneath the exaggeration , to cut away the excess elaboration or distortion and include that truth where it fits . A second ...
... truth in his position , no matter how extremely he has formulated it . The problem is to find the truth underneath the exaggeration , to cut away the excess elaboration or distortion and include that truth where it fits . A second ...
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... truths it picks out of the mountain of truth that is stifling us . Many thinkers of impor- tance are mentioned only in passing : the reader may wonder , for example , why I lean so much on Rank and hardly mention Jung in a book that has ...
... truths it picks out of the mountain of truth that is stifling us . Many thinkers of impor- tance are mentioned only in passing : the reader may wonder , for example , why I lean so much on Rank and hardly mention Jung in a book that has ...
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... truths that help men get a grip on what is happening to them , that tell them where the problems really are . One such vital truth that has long been known is the idea of heroism ; but in “ normal ” scholarly times we never thought of ...
... truths that help men get a grip on what is happening to them , that tell them where the problems really are . One such vital truth that has long been known is the idea of heroism ; but in “ normal ” scholarly times we never thought of ...
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