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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... terror of death . After Darwin the problem of death as an evolutionary one came to the fore , and many thinkers immediately saw that it was a major psychological problem for man.2 They also very quickly saw what real heroism was about ...
... terror of death . After Darwin the problem of death as an evolutionary one came to the fore , and many thinkers immediately saw that it was a major psychological problem for man.2 They also very quickly saw what real heroism was about ...
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... a new freedom for natural biological urges , a new attitude of pride and joy in the body , the abandonment of shame, guilt, and self-hatred. From this point 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 13 6/26/23 10:58 AM The Terror of Death 13.
... a new freedom for natural biological urges , a new attitude of pride and joy in the body , the abandonment of shame, guilt, and self-hatred. From this point 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 13 6/26/23 10:58 AM The Terror of Death 13.
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... . Man's fears are fashioned out of the ways in which he perceives the world . Now , what is unique about the child's perception of the world ? 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 17 6/26/23 10:58 AM The Terror of Death 17.
... . Man's fears are fashioned out of the ways in which he perceives the world . Now , what is unique about the child's perception of the world ? 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 17 6/26/23 10:58 AM The Terror of Death 17.
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... terror . The result is that the child- -at 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 ...
... terror . The result is that the child- -at 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 ...
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... 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 has to take ...
... 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 has to take ...
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