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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... physical behavior.22 And this is how Kierkegaard understands the problem : For the self is a synthesis in which the finite is the limiting factor , and the infinite is the expanding factor . Infinitude's despair is therefore the ...
... physical behavior.22 And this is how Kierkegaard understands the problem : For the self is a synthesis in which the finite is the limiting factor , and the infinite is the expanding factor . Infinitude's despair is therefore the ...
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... physical or evolutionary sense in which like creatures huddle unto like , but more in the spiritual sense . Human beings are the only things that mediate meaning , which is to say that they give the only human meaning we can know . Jung ...
... physical or evolutionary sense in which like creatures huddle unto like , but more in the spiritual sense . Human beings are the only things that mediate meaning , which is to say that they give the only human meaning we can know . Jung ...
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... physical and mental , or bodily and symbolic . The prob- lem of self - perpetuation thus presents itself in two distinct forms . One , the body , is standardized and given ; the other , the self , is personalized and achieved . How is ...
... physical and mental , or bodily and symbolic . The prob- lem of self - perpetuation thus presents itself in two distinct forms . One , the body , is standardized and given ; the other , the self , is personalized and achieved . How 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