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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... sense everything that man does is religious and heroic , and yet in danger of being fictitious and fallible . The question that becomes then the most important one that man can put to himself is simply this : how conscious is he of what ...
... sense everything that man does is religious and heroic , and yet in danger of being fictitious and fallible . The question that becomes then the most important one that man can put to himself is simply this : how conscious is he of what ...
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... sense out of it ; the accumulation of research and opinion on the fear of death is already too large to be dealt with and summarized in any simple way . The revival of interest in death , in the last few decades , has alone already ...
... sense out of it ; the accumulation of research and opinion on the fear of death is already too large to be dealt with and summarized in any simple way . The revival of interest in death , in the last few decades , has alone already ...
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... sense this at some level ; we call this the anxiety of object - loss . Isn't this anx- iety , then , a natural , organismic fear of annihilation ? Again , there are many who look at this as a very relative matter . They believe that if ...
... sense this at some level ; we call this the anxiety of object - loss . Isn't this anx- iety , then , a natural , organismic fear of annihilation ? Again , there are many who look at this as a very relative matter . They believe that if ...
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... sense of insecurity in the face of danger , behind the sense of discouragement and depression , there always lurks the basic fear of death , a fear which undergoes most complex elaborations and manifests itself in many indirect ways ...
... sense of insecurity in the face of danger , behind the sense of discouragement and depression , there always lurks the basic fear of death , a fear which undergoes most complex elaborations and manifests itself in many indirect ways ...
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... least some of the time — lives with an inner sense of chaos that other animals are immune to.26 Ironically , even when the child makes out real cause 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 18 6/26/23 10:58 AM 18 THE DENIAL OF DEATH.
... least some of the time — lives with an inner sense of chaos that other animals are immune to.26 Ironically , even when the child makes out real cause 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 18 6/26/23 10:58 AM 18 THE DENIAL OF DEATH.
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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