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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... whole philosophical literature . . . . " " -Washington Post Book World " An original , creative contribution to a synthesis of this generation's ex- tensive explorations in psychology and theology . " -The Boston Herald American ...
... whole philosophical literature . . . . " " -Washington Post Book World " An original , creative contribution to a synthesis of this generation's ex- tensive explorations in psychology and theology . " -The Boston Herald American ...
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... whole , to dedicate our lives to a higher cause , to serve cosmic powers — poses a disturbing and revolutionary question to every individual and nation . At what cost do we purchase the assurance that we are heroic ? No doubt , one of ...
... whole , to dedicate our lives to a higher cause , to serve cosmic powers — poses a disturbing and revolutionary question to every individual and nation . At what cost do we purchase the assurance that we are heroic ? No doubt , one of ...
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... whole development of psychology back to the still - towering Kierkegaard . I am thus arguing for a merger of psychology and mythico - religious perspective . I base this argu- ment in large part on the work of Otto Rank , and I have ...
... whole development of psychology back to the still - towering Kierkegaard . I am thus arguing for a merger of psychology and mythico - religious perspective . I base this argu- ment in large part on the work of Otto Rank , and I have ...
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... whole. In this book I cover only his individual psychology; in another book I will sketch his schema for a psychology of history. There are several ways of looking at Rank. Some see him as a bril- liant coworker of Freud, a member of ...
... whole. In this book I cover only his individual psychology; in another book I will sketch his schema for a psychology of history. There are several ways of looking at Rank. Some see him as a bril- liant coworker of Freud, a member of ...
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... whole matter is very curious , because Adler , Jung , and Rank very early corrected most of Freud's basic mistakes . The question for the historian is , rather , what there was in the nature of the psychoanalytic movement , the ideas ...
... whole matter is very curious , because Adler , Jung , and Rank very early corrected most of Freud's basic mistakes . The question for the historian is , rather , what there was in the nature of the psychoanalytic movement , the ideas ...
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