The Denial of DeathFree Press, 8 mai 1997 - 352 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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... creation . The world as it is , creation out of the void , things as they are , things as they are not , are too much for us to be able to stand . Or , better : they would be too much for us to bear without crumbling in a faint ...
... creation . The world as it is , creation out of the void , things as they are , things as they are not , are too much for us to be able to stand . Or , better : they would be too much for us to bear without crumbling in a faint ...
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... creation itself , to the ultimate mean- ing of life , to God . We should not be surprised that Rank was brought to exactly the same conclusion as Kierkegaard : that the only way out of human conflict is full renunciation , to give one's ...
... creation itself , to the ultimate mean- ing of life , to God . We should not be surprised that Rank was brought to exactly the same conclusion as Kierkegaard : that the only way out of human conflict is full renunciation , to give one's ...
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... creation and from the energies that he now has . He has to adapt and wait . New birth will keep him going , give him constant renewal , say the Christians ; and if he has perfect righteousness and faith , and enough of it spread widely ...
... creation and from the energies that he now has . He has to adapt and wait . New birth will keep him going , give him constant renewal , say the Christians ; and if he has perfect righteousness and faith , and enough of it spread widely ...
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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 Erich Fromm Ernest Becker existential experience fantasy father fear of death feel Ferenczi fetish fetishist freedom Freud Freudian Fromm give Greenacre guilt helplessness 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 possibility precisely problem Psychiatry psychoanalytic psychology psychosis psychotherapy Rank Rank's reality reason religion represents role schizophrenic scientific secure seems sense sexual social society symbolic talk terror theory thing thought tion transcendence Transvestism truly truth understand whole York