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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... problem of ego mastery . He did not have to say that death was repressed if the organism carried it naturally in its processes.14 In this formulation , it is not a general human problem , much less the primary human problem , but is ...
... problem of ego mastery . He did not have to say that death was repressed if the organism carried it naturally in its processes.14 In this formulation , it is not a general human problem , much less the primary human problem , but is ...
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... problem ; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it . This holds true for all creative people to a greater or lesser extent , but it is especially obvious with the artist . Existence becomes a problem that needs an ideal ...
... problem ; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it . This holds true for all creative people to a greater or lesser extent , but it is especially obvious with the artist . Existence becomes a problem that needs an ideal ...
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... problem of neu- rosis : as a result of character - formation , as a problem of reality versus illusion , and as a result of historical circumstances . All three of course merge into one . Man lives his contradictions for better or worse ...
... problem of neu- rosis : as a result of character - formation , as a problem of reality versus illusion , and as a result of historical circumstances . All three of course merge into one . Man lives his contradictions for better or worse ...
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