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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... person to emerge into life , away from his dependencies , his automatic safety in the cloak of someone else's power , what joy can you promise him with the burden of his aloneness ? When you get a person to look at the sun as it bakes ...
... person to emerge into life , away from his dependencies , his automatic safety in the cloak of someone else's power , what joy can you promise him with the burden of his aloneness ? When you get a person to look at the sun as it bakes ...
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... person is pulled off balance and destroyed . It is as though the freedom of creativity . that stems from within the symbolic self cannot be contained by the body , and the person is torn apart . This is how we understand schizophrenia ...
... person is pulled off balance and destroyed . It is as though the freedom of creativity . that stems from within the symbolic self cannot be contained by the body , and the person is torn apart . This is how we understand schizophrenia ...
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... person would be neurotic not because he was masochistic but be- cause he was not really submissive , but only wanted to make believe that he was.85 Let us dwell on this type of failure briefly , because it sums up the whole problem of ...
... person would be neurotic not because he was masochistic but be- cause he was not really submissive , but only wanted to make believe that he was.85 Let us dwell on this type of failure briefly , because it sums up the whole problem of ...
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