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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... scientific vectors point firmly in this direction . Darwin , and the stunning biological insights he inspired , revealed a deep continuity among all life on planet earth . The physicalist perspective goes further and argues for a rich ...
... scientific vectors point firmly in this direction . Darwin , and the stunning biological insights he inspired , revealed a deep continuity among all life on planet earth . The physicalist perspective goes further and argues for a rich ...
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... scientific could be “ beyond praise . ” Even the work of Freud himself seemed to me to be praiseworthy , that is , some- how expectable as a product of the human mind . But Perls was right : Rank was — as the young people say ...
... scientific could be “ beyond praise . ” Even the work of Freud himself seemed to me to be praiseworthy , that is , some- how expectable as a product of the human mind . But Perls was right : Rank was — as the young people say ...
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... scientific thought . Even a book of broad scope has to be very selective of the 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 ...
... scientific thought . Even a book of broad scope has to be very selective of the 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 ...
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... scientific underpinning for a true understanding of the nature of heroism and its place in human life . If “ mankind's common instinct for reality ” is right , we have achieved the remarkable feat of exposing that reality in a scientific ...
... scientific underpinning for a true understanding of the nature of heroism and its place in human life . If “ mankind's common instinct for reality ” is right , we have achieved the remarkable feat of exposing that reality in a scientific ...
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... scientific , and civilized . It is still a myth- ical hero - system in which people serve in order to earn a feeling of primary value , of cosmic specialness , of ultimate usefulness to creation , of unshak- able meaning . They earn ...
... scientific , and civilized . It is still a myth- ical hero - system in which people serve in order to earn a feeling of primary value , of cosmic specialness , of ultimate usefulness to creation , of unshak- able meaning . They earn ...
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