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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... one's potential " and one's " full human- ness . " He saw these as natural developmental urges and wondered what holds them up , what blocks them . He answered the question in existential language , using terms like the " fear of one's ...
... one's potential " and one's " full human- ness . " He saw these as natural developmental urges and wondered what holds them up , what blocks them . He answered the question in existential language , using terms like the " fear of one's ...
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... one's character one can pretend and feel that he is somebody , that the world is manageable , that there is a reason for one's life , a ready justification for one's action . To live automatically and un- critically is to be assured of ...
... one's character one can pretend and feel that he is somebody , that the world is manageable , that there is a reason for one's life , a ready justification for one's action . To live automatically and un- critically is to be assured of ...
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... one's guard , one's character armor , admit one's lack of self - sufficiency . And this shored - up center , this guard , this armor , this supposed self - sufficiency are the very things that the entire project of coming - of - age ...
... one's guard , one's character armor , admit one's lack of self - sufficiency . And this shored - up center , this guard , this armor , this supposed self - sufficiency are the very things that the entire project of coming - of - age ...
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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