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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... reality ; anthropologists have now largely accomplished this rehabilitation of the primitive . But this argument leaves untouched the fact that the fear of death is indeed a universal in the human condition . To be sure , primitives ...
... reality ; anthropologists have now largely accomplished this rehabilitation of the primitive . But this argument leaves untouched the fact that the fear of death is indeed a universal in the human condition . To be sure , primitives ...
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... reality ” is right , we have achieved the remarkable feat of exposing that reality in a scientific way . In the following discussion I am obliged to repeat and sum up things I have written else- where ( The Birth and Death of Meaning ...
... reality ” is right , we have achieved the remarkable feat of exposing that reality in a scientific way . In the following discussion I am obliged to repeat and sum up things I have written else- where ( The Birth and Death of Meaning ...
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... Reality and fear go together naturally . As the human infant is in an even more exposed and helpless situation , it is foolish to assume that the fear response of animals would have disappeared in such a weak and highly sensitive ...
... Reality and fear go together naturally . As the human infant is in an even more exposed and helpless situation , it is foolish to assume that the fear response of animals would have disappeared in such a weak and highly sensitive ...
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... realities — terror of the world , the horror of one's own wishes , the fear of vengeance by the parents , the disappearance of things , one's lack of control over anything , really . It is too much for any animal to take , but the child ...
... realities — terror of the world , the horror of one's own wishes , the fear of vengeance by the parents , the disappearance of things , one's lack of control over anything , really . It is too much for any animal to take , but the child ...
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... reality of his situation that they are forms of madness — agreed madness , shared madness , disguised and dignified mad- ness , but madness all the same . “ Character - traits , ” said Sandor Ferenczi , one of the most brilliant minds ...
... reality of his situation that they are forms of madness — agreed madness , shared madness , disguised and dignified mad- ness , but madness all the same . “ Character - traits , ” said Sandor Ferenczi , one of the most brilliant minds ...
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