The Denial of Death

By: Ernest Becker

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Paperback | 7 August 1997 | Edition Number 1

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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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The Chicago Sun-Times It is hard to overestimate the importance of this book; Becker succeeds brilliantly in what he sets out to do, and the effort was necessary. Albuquerque Journal Book Review ...to read it is to know the delight inherent in the unfolding of a mind grasping at new possibilities and forming a new synthesis. The Denial of Death is a great book -- one of the few great books of the 20th or any other century. New York Times Book Review ...a brave work of electrifying intelligence and passion, optimistic and revolutionary, destined to endure... Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. Author of On Death And Dying It puts together what others have torn to pieces and rendered useless. It is one of those rare masterpieces that will stimulate your thoughts, your intellectual curiosity, and last but not least, your soul...

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Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Human Nature and the Heroic	p. 1
The Depth Psychology of Heroism	p. 9
The Terror of Death	p. 11
The Recasting of Some Basic Psychoanalytic Ideas	p. 25
Human Character as a Vital Lie	p. 47
The Psychoanalyst Kierkegaard	p. 67
The Problem of Freud's Character, Noch Einmal	p. 93
The Failures of Heroism	p. 125
The Spell Cast by Persons - The Nexus of Unfreedom	p. 127
Otto Rank and the Closure of Psychoanalysis on Kierkegaard	p. 159
The Present Outcome of Psychoanalysis	p. 176
A General View of Mental Illness	p. 208
Retrospect and Conclusion: The Dilemmas of Heroism	p. 253
Psychology and Religion: What Is the Heroic Individual?	p. 255
References	p. 286
Index	p. 305
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