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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... anal play the child * As anal play is an essential exercise in human mastery, it is better not interfered with. If the adult anxiously cuts it short, then he charges the animal function with an extra dose of anxiety. It becomes more ...
... anal play the child * As anal play is an essential exercise in human mastery, it is better not interfered with. If the adult anxiously cuts it short, then he charges the animal function with an extra dose of anxiety. It becomes more ...
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... anal character traits are really forms of the universal protest against accident and death . Seen in this way a large part of the most esoteric psychoana- lytic corpus of insights achieves a new vitality and meaningfulness . To say that ...
... anal character traits are really forms of the universal protest against accident and death . Seen in this way a large part of the most esoteric psychoana- lytic corpus of insights achieves a new vitality and meaningfulness . To say that ...
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... anal " film Brewster McCloud , where speeches , official badges , and shiny manufactured surfaces were pummeled from the sky with obliterating excrement . The message was one that the modern filmmakers are making with great daring ...
... anal " film Brewster McCloud , where speeches , official badges , and shiny manufactured surfaces were pummeled from the sky with obliterating excrement . The message was one that the modern filmmakers are making with great daring ...
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... anal stage " is another way of talking about the period when the child begins to turn his attention to his own body as an object in his phenomenal field . He discovers it and seeks to control it . His narcissistic project then becomes ...
... anal stage " is another way of talking about the period when the child begins to turn his attention to his own body as an object in his phenomenal field . He discovers it and seeks to control it . His narcissistic project then becomes ...
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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