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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... fear of death is something that society creates and at the same time uses against the person to keep him in submission; the psychiatrist Moloney talked about it as a “culture mechanism,” and Marcuse as an “ideology.”12 Norman O. Brown ...
... fear of death is something that society creates and at the same time uses against the person to keep him in submission; the psychiatrist Moloney talked about it as a “culture mechanism,” and Marcuse as an “ideology.”12 Norman O. Brown ...
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... fear of death is or is not the basic anxiety.17 In matters like this , then , the most that one can do is to take sides , to give an opinion based on the authorities that seem to him most compelling , and to present some of the ...
... fear of death is or is not the basic anxiety.17 In matters like this , then , the most that one can do is to take sides , to give an opinion based on the authorities that seem to him most compelling , and to present some of the ...
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... fear of death were not as constant . The very term “ self - preservation ” implies an effort against some force of disintegration ; the affective aspect of this is fear , fear of death.21 In other words , the fear of death must be ...
... fear of death were not as constant . The very term “ self - preservation ” implies an effort against some force of disintegration ; the affective aspect of this is fear , fear of death.21 In other words , the fear of death must be ...
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... fear of death in the normal biological functioning of our instinct of self - preservation , as well as our utter obliviousness to this fear in our conscious life : Therefore in normal times we move about actually without ever be ...
... fear of death in the normal biological functioning of our instinct of self - preservation , as well as our utter obliviousness to this fear in our conscious life : Therefore in normal times we move about actually without ever be ...
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... death wishes to- ward his socializers . Therefore , none escape the fear of personal death in either direct or symbolic form . Repression is usually . . . immediate and effective .... 25 The child is too weak to take responsibility for ...
... death wishes to- ward his socializers . Therefore , none escape the fear of personal death in either direct or symbolic form . Repression is usually . . . immediate and effective .... 25 The child is too weak to take responsibility for ...
Table des matières
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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