The Denial of DeathSimon and Schuster, 1 nov. 2007 - 336 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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... first of all . As Aristotle somewhere put it : luck is when the guy next to you gets hit with the arrow . Twenty - five hundred years of history have not changed man's basic narcissism ; most of the time , for most of us , this is still ...
... first of all . As Aristotle somewhere put it : luck is when the guy next to you gets hit with the arrow . Twenty - five hundred years of history have not changed man's basic narcissism ; most of the time , for most of us , this is still ...
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... first in the universe , representing in himself all of life . This is the reason for the daily and usually excruciating struggle with siblings : the child cannot allow him- self to be second - best or devalued , much less left out ...
... first in the universe , representing in himself all of life . This is the reason for the daily and usually excruciating struggle with siblings : the child cannot allow him- self to be second - best or devalued , much less left out ...
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... first thing we have to do with heroism is to lay bare its underside , show what gives human heroics its specific nature and impetus . Here we intro- duce directly one of the great rediscoveries of modern thought : that of all things ...
... first thing we have to do with heroism is to lay bare its underside , show what gives human heroics its specific nature and impetus . Here we intro- duce directly one of the great rediscoveries of modern thought : that of all things ...
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... first document that I want to present and linger on is a paper written by the noted psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg ; it is an especially penetrating essay that — for succinctness and scope — has not been much improved upon , even though ...
... first document that I want to present and linger on is a paper written by the noted psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg ; it is an especially penetrating essay that — for succinctness and scope — has not been much improved upon , even though ...
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... first few years of the child's life . Perhaps then we could understand better why Zilboorg said that the fear of death “ undergoes most complex elaborations and manifests itself in many indirect ways . " Or , as Wahl so perfectly put it ...
... first few years of the child's life . Perhaps then we could understand better why Zilboorg said that the fear of death “ undergoes most complex elaborations and manifests itself in many indirect ways . " Or , as Wahl so perfectly put it ...
Table des matières
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25 | |
Human Character as a Vital Lie | 47 |
THE FAILURES OF HEROISM | 125 |
Otto Rank and the Closure | 159 |
The Present Outcome of Psychoanalysis | 177 |
A General View of Mental Illness | 209 |
RETROSPECT AND CONCLUSION | 253 |
References | 285 |
Index | 307 |
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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 defenses denial Erich Fromm Ernest Becker existential experience fact fantasy father fear of death feel fetish fetishist freedom Freud Freudian Fromm give Greenacre guilt helplessness hero 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 physical possibility precisely problem Psychiatry psychoanalytic psychology psychosis Rank Rank's reality reason religion represents role sado-masochism schizophrenic scientific secure seems sense sexual social symbolic talk terror thing thought transcendence transference object Transvestism truly truth understand whole