The denial of death
Ernest Becker (Author)
Addresses the issue of mortality discussing how humans universally share a fear of death and examines the theories of leading thinkers on this subject including Freud, Rank, and Kierkegaard
Death
xiv, 314 pages ; 22 cm
9780029021507, 9780029023808, 9780029023105, 0029021502, 0029023807, 0029023106
658905
1. Introduction: human nature and the heroic
2. The terror of death
3. The recasting of some basic psychoanalytic ideas
4. Human character as a vital lie
5. The psychoanalyst Kierkegaard
6. The problem of Freud's character, Noch Einmal
7. The spell cast by persons- the nexus of unfreedom
8. Otto Rank and the closure of psychoanalysis on Kierkegaard
9. The present outcome of psychoanalysis
10. A general view of mental illness
11. Psychology and religion: what is the heroic individual?
Companion volume: Escape from evil