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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... reason for my writing this book is that I have had more than my share of problems with this fitting - together of valid truths in the past dozen years . I have been trying to come to grips with the ideas of Freud and his interpreters ...
... reason for my writing this book is that I have had more than my share of problems with this fitting - together of valid truths in the past dozen years . I have been trying to come to grips with the ideas of Freud and his interpreters ...
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... reason for disparaging his stature ; it was an exaggerated and ill - fated book that poisoned his public image , even though he himself reconsidered it and went so far beyond it . Not being merely a coworker of Freud , a broad - ranging ...
... reason for disparaging his stature ; it was an exaggerated and ill - fated book that poisoned his public image , even though he himself reconsidered it and went so far beyond it . Not being merely a coworker of Freud , a broad - ranging ...
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... reason is that Jung is so prominent and has so many effective interpreters , while Rank is hardly known and has had hardly anyone to speak for him . Another reason is that although Rank's thought is difficult , it is always right on the ...
... reason is that Jung is so prominent and has so many effective interpreters , while Rank is hardly known and has had hardly anyone to speak for him . Another reason is that although Rank's thought is difficult , it is always right on the ...
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... 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 . “ You gave him the biggest piece of candy ! " " You gave him more juice ...
... 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 . “ You gave him the biggest piece of candy ! " " You gave him more juice ...
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... reasons — because it , too , featured a healer with super- natural powers who had risen from the dead . The great triumph of Easter is the joyful shout " Christ has risen ! " — an echo of the same joy that the devotees of the mystery ...
... reasons — because it , too , featured a healer with super- natural powers who had risen from the dead . The great triumph of Easter is the joyful shout " Christ has risen ! " — an echo of the same joy that the devotees of the mystery ...
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