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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... possibility outruns necessity , the self runs away from itself , so that it has no necessity whereto it is bound to return - then this is the despair [ sickness ] of possibility . The self becomes an abstract possibility which tries ...
... possibility outruns necessity , the self runs away from itself , so that it has no necessity whereto it is bound to return - then this is the despair [ sickness ] of possibility . The self becomes an abstract possibility which tries ...
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... possibility , of meaning , of action , but it does not offer any real possibility . As Kierkegaard sums it up : The loss of possibility signifies : either that everything has become neces- sary to man or that everything has become ...
... possibility , of meaning , of action , but it does not offer any real possibility . As Kierkegaard sums it up : The loss of possibility signifies : either that everything has become neces- sary to man or that everything has become ...
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... possibility of freedom , " because anxiety demolishes " all finite aims , " and so the " man who is educated by possibility is educated in accordance with his infinity . " 46 Possibility leads nowhere if it does not lead to faith . It ...
... possibility of freedom , " because anxiety demolishes " all finite aims , " and so the " man who is educated by possibility is educated in accordance with his infinity . " 46 Possibility leads nowhere if it does not lead to faith . It ...
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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