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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... 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 ... heroism . The best we can hope for society at large is that the mass of uncon ...
... 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 ... heroism . The best we can hope for society at large is that the mass of uncon ...
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... hero rejects the stan- dardized heroics of mass culture in favor of cosmic heroism in which there is real joy in throwing off the chains of uncritical , self - defeating dependency and discovering new possibilities of choice and action ...
... hero rejects the stan- dardized heroics of mass culture in favor of cosmic heroism in which there is real joy in throwing off the chains of uncritical , self - defeating dependency and discovering new possibilities of choice and action ...
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... cosmic specialness , no matter how we mask it in concerns of smaller scope . Occasionally someone admits that he takes his heroism seriously , which gives most of us a chill , as did U.S. Congressman Mendel Rivers , who fed ...
... cosmic specialness , no matter how we mask it in concerns of smaller scope . Occasionally someone admits that he takes his heroism seriously , which gives most of us a chill , as did U.S. Congressman Mendel Rivers , who fed ...
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... cosmic specialness , of ultimate usefulness to creation , of unshak- able ... heroism ? I suggested that if everyone honestly admitted his urge to be a ... cosmic life . How would our modern societ- ies contrive to satisfy such an honest ...
... cosmic specialness , of ultimate usefulness to creation , of unshak- able ... heroism ? I suggested that if everyone honestly admitted his urge to be a ... cosmic life . How would our modern societ- ies contrive to satisfy such an honest ...
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... cosmic heroism , but there is obviously the noble side as well . Man will lay down his life for his country , his ... heroism that reaches into every aspect of our social life : the dropouts of university heroism , of business and career ...
... cosmic heroism , but there is obviously the noble side as well . Man will lay down his life for his country , his ... heroism that reaches into every aspect of our social life : the dropouts of university heroism , of business and career ...
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