Becker, Ernest
The denial of death / Ernest Becker - 50th Anniversary Edition - New York : Free Press, 2023. - xxxii, 316 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
"With a new foreword by Sam Keen"--Cover
Originally published: New York : Free Press, 1973 Companion vol.: Escape from evil.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Human nature and the heroic
pt. I. The depth psychology of heroism
The terror of death
The recasting of some basic psychoanalytic ideas
Human character as a vital lie
The psychoanalyst Kierkegaard
The problem of Freud's character, Noch Einmal
pt. II. The failures of heroism
The spell cast by persons, the nexus of unfreedom
Otto Rank and the closure of psychoanalysis on Kierkegaard
The present outcome of psychoanalysis
A general view of mental illness
pt. III. Rerospect and conclusion: The dilemmas of heroism
Psychology and religion: what is the heroic individual?
9780684832401 (pbk.)
Attitude to Death
Death
Death--Psychological aspects.
Heroes--Psychology.
Heroes and heroines
Myth--Psychology.
128.5 BEC
The denial of death / Ernest Becker - 50th Anniversary Edition - New York : Free Press, 2023. - xxxii, 316 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
"With a new foreword by Sam Keen"--Cover
Originally published: New York : Free Press, 1973 Companion vol.: Escape from evil.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Human nature and the heroic
pt. I. The depth psychology of heroism
The terror of death
The recasting of some basic psychoanalytic ideas
Human character as a vital lie
The psychoanalyst Kierkegaard
The problem of Freud's character, Noch Einmal
pt. II. The failures of heroism
The spell cast by persons, the nexus of unfreedom
Otto Rank and the closure of psychoanalysis on Kierkegaard
The present outcome of psychoanalysis
A general view of mental illness
pt. III. Rerospect and conclusion: The dilemmas of heroism
Psychology and religion: what is the heroic individual?
9780684832401 (pbk.)
Attitude to Death
Death
Death--Psychological aspects.
Heroes--Psychology.
Heroes and heroines
Myth--Psychology.
128.5 BEC
