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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... nature , the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic.1 As we shall see in Chapter Five it was Kierkegaard who forcefully introduced the existential paradox into modern psychology , with his brilliant analysis of the Adam and Eve ...
... nature , the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic.1 As we shall see in Chapter Five it was Kierkegaard who forcefully introduced the existential paradox into modern psychology , with his brilliant analysis of the Adam and Eve ...
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... nature gives to each animal by the automatic instinctive pro- gramming and in the pulsating of the vital processes . But man , poor denuded creature , has to build and earn inner value and security . He must repress his smallness in the ...
... nature gives to each animal by the automatic instinctive pro- gramming and in the pulsating of the vital processes . But man , poor denuded creature , has to build and earn inner value and security . He must repress his smallness in the ...
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... nature of the world . The parents have made him massively inept as an organism . He has to contrive extra - ingenious and extra - desperate ways of living in the world that will keep him from being torn apart by experience , since he is ...
... nature of the world . The parents have made him massively inept as an organism . He has to contrive extra - ingenious and extra - desperate ways of living in the world that will keep him from being torn apart by experience , since he is ...
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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