The denial of death / Ernest Becker

By: Becker, Ernest
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Free Press, 2023Edition: 50th Anniversary EditionDescription: xxxii, 316 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780684832401 (pbk.)Subject(s): Attitude to Death Death Death--Psychological aspects. Heroes--Psychology. Heroes and heroines Myth--PsychologyDDC classification: 128.5 BEC
Contents:
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?
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"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?

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