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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... human life, that it goes deeper into human nature than anything else because it is based on organismic narcissism and on the child's need for self-esteem as the condition for his life. Society itself is a codified hero system, which ...
... human life, that it goes deeper into human nature than anything else because it is based on organismic narcissism and on the child's need for self-esteem as the condition for his life. Society itself is a codified hero system, which ...
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... situation it is for an animal to be in . I believe that those who speculate that a full appre- hension of man's condition ... human condi- tion , we have to know that the child can't really handle either end of it . The most characteristic ...
... situation it is for an animal to be in . I believe that those who speculate that a full appre- hension of man's condition ... human condi- tion , we have to know that the child can't really handle either end of it . The most characteristic ...
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... human character styles — what we can now call “ styles of madness ” after Pascal . We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition , what we might call the costs of ...
... human character styles — what we can now call “ styles of madness ” after Pascal . We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition , what we might call the costs of ...
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... human sciences. I am tempted to quote lavishly from the analytic riches of ... condition—his self and his body. Anality and its problems arise in childhood ... human mastery, it is better not interfered with. If the adult anxiously cuts ...
... human sciences. I am tempted to quote lavishly from the analytic riches of ... condition—his self and his body. Anality and its problems arise in childhood ... human mastery, it is better not interfered with. If the adult anxiously cuts ...
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Ernest Becker. is already becoming a philosopher of the human condition . But like all philosophers he is still bound by it , and his main task in life becomes the denial of what the anus represents : that in fact , he is nothing but ...
Ernest Becker. is already becoming a philosopher of the human condition . But like all philosophers he is still bound by it , and his main task in life becomes the denial of what the anus represents : that in fact , he is nothing but ...
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