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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... sense everything that man does is religious and heroic , and yet in danger of being fictitious and fallible . The question that becomes then the most important one that man can put to himself is simply this : how conscious is he of what ...
... sense everything that man does is religious and heroic , and yet in danger of being fictitious and fallible . The question that becomes then the most important one that man can put to himself is simply this : how conscious is he of what ...
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... sense of magical omnipotence , a sense of his own indestructi- bility , a feeling of proven power and secure support . He can imagine himself , deep down , to be eternal . We might say that his repression of the idea of his own death is ...
... sense of magical omnipotence , a sense of his own indestructi- bility , a feeling of proven power and secure support . He can imagine himself , deep down , to be eternal . We might say that his repression of the idea of his own death is ...
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... sense of inadequacy , and hence fear of the male role . These accents are important modifications on Freud because they stress the role of development rather than in- stinct . Freud lacked the rich developmental theory that has ac ...
... sense of inadequacy , and hence fear of the male role . These accents are important modifications on Freud because they stress the role of development rather than in- stinct . Freud lacked the rich developmental theory that has ac ...
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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