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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... freedom to en- capsulate ourselves in narrow , tribal , paranoid personalities and create more bloody Utopias or to form compassionate communities of the abandoned is still to be decided . So long as human beings possess a measure of ...
... freedom to en- capsulate ourselves in narrow , tribal , paranoid personalities and create more bloody Utopias or to form compassionate communities of the abandoned is still to be decided . So long as human beings possess a measure of ...
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... freedom and human dignity are really clumsily ask- ing that they be given a sense of primary heroism of which they have been cheated historically . This is why their insistent claims are so troublesome and upsetting : how do we do such ...
... freedom and human dignity are really clumsily ask- ing that they be given a sense of primary heroism of which they have been cheated historically . This is why their insistent claims are so troublesome and upsetting : how do we do such ...
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... freedom and self - expansiveness.11 As we will see later on , this view is very popular today in the wide- spread movement toward unrepressed living , the urge to a new freedom for natural biological urges , a new attitude of pride and ...
... freedom and self - expansiveness.11 As we will see later on , this view is very popular today in the wide- spread movement toward unrepressed living , the urge to a new freedom for natural biological urges , a new attitude of pride and ...
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... The body cannot be allowed to have the ascendancy over him.a Anality explains why men yearn for freedom from contradictions and 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 31 6/26/23 10:58 AM The Recasting of Some Basic Psychoanalytic Ideas 31.
... The body cannot be allowed to have the ascendancy over him.a Anality explains why men yearn for freedom from contradictions and 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 31 6/26/23 10:58 AM The Recasting of Some Basic Psychoanalytic Ideas 31.
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Ernest Becker. Anality explains why men yearn for freedom from contradictions and ambiguities , why they like their symbols pure , their Truth with a capital " T. " On the other hand , when men really want to protest against artificial ...
Ernest Becker. Anality explains why men yearn for freedom from contradictions and ambiguities , why they like their symbols pure , their Truth with a capital " T. " On the other hand , when men really want to protest against artificial ...
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