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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... man and on the human condition, in the belief that the time is ripe for a synthesis that covers the best thought in many ... man's knowledge is not to oppose and to demolish opposing views, but to include them in a larger theoretical ...
... man and on the human condition, in the belief that the time is ripe for a synthesis that covers the best thought in many ... man's knowledge is not to oppose and to demolish opposing views, but to include them in a larger theoretical ...
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... ) in order to set the framework for the other chapters . One of the key concepts for understanding man's urge to 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 1 6/26/23 10:58 AM CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: Human Nature and the Heroic 1.
... ) in order to set the framework for the other chapters . One of the key concepts for understanding man's urge to 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 1 6/26/23 10:58 AM CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: Human Nature and the Heroic 1.
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... man next to him . Freud's explanation for this was that the unconscious does not know death or time : in man's physiochemical , inner organic recesses he feels immortal . None of these observations implies human guile . Man does not ...
... man next to him . Freud's explanation for this was that the unconscious does not know death or time : in man's physiochemical , inner organic recesses he feels immortal . None of these observations implies human guile . Man does not ...
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... man needs most is to feel secure in his self - esteem . But man is not just a blind glob of idling protoplasm , but a ... man's natural yearning for organismic activity , the pleasures of incorpora- tion and expansion , can be fed ...
... man needs most is to feel secure in his self - esteem . But man is not just a blind glob of idling protoplasm , but a ... man's natural yearning for organismic activity , the pleasures of incorpora- tion and expansion , can be fed ...
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... man's tragic destiny : he must desperately justify himself as an object of primary value in the universe ; he must ... man to strive to be a hero , how deeply it goes in his evolutionary and organismic constitution , how openly he shows ...
... man's tragic destiny : he must desperately justify himself as an object of primary value in the universe ; he must ... man to strive to be a hero , how deeply it goes in his evolutionary and organismic constitution , how openly he shows ...
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