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The Denial of Death
Author | : ERNEST. BECKER |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-03-05 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1788164261 |
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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. The book argues that human civilisation is a defence against the knowledge that we are mortal beings. Becker states that humans live in both the physical world and a symbolic world of meaning, which is where our 'immortality project' resides. We create in order to become immortal - to become part of something we believe will last forever. In this way we hope to give our lives meaning.In The Denial of Death, Becker sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates decades after it was written.
The Denial of Death
Author | : Ernest Becker |
Publsiher | : Souvenir Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 9780285640078 |
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'It made me rethink the roots of our deepest fears and insecurities, and why we often disappoint ourselves in how we manifest them' Bill Clinton, Guardian 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. The book argues that human civilisation is a defence against the knowledge that we are mortal beings. Becker states that humans live in both the physical world and a symbolic world of meaning, which is where our 'immortality project' resides. We create in order to become immortal - to become part of something we believe will last forever. In this way we hope to give our lives meaning. In The Denial of Death, Becker sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates decades after it was written.
The Denial of Death
Author | : Ernest Becker |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1997-05-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780684832401 |
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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.
With the End in Mind
Author | : Kathryn Mannix |
Publsiher | : Little, Brown Spark |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2018-01-16 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 9780316504539 |
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For readers of Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi, a palliative care doctor's breathtaking stories from 30 years spent caring for the dying. Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and fuller lives than ever before. And for the most part, that is good news. But with changes in the way we understand medicine come changes in the way we understand death. Once a familiar, peaceful, and gentle -- if sorrowful -- transition, death has come to be something from which we shield our eyes, as we prefer to fight desperately against it rather than accept its inevitability. Dr. Kathryn Mannix has studied and practiced palliative care for thirty years. In With the End in Mind , she shares beautifully crafted stories from a lifetime of caring for the dying, and makes a compelling case for the therapeutic power of approaching death not with trepidation, but with openness, clarity, and understanding. Weaving the details of her own experiences as a caregiver through stories of her patients, their families, and their distinctive lives, Dr. Mannix reacquaints us with the universal, but deeply personal, process of dying. With insightful meditations on life, death, and the space between them, With the End in Mind describes the possibility of meeting death gently, with forethought and preparation, and shows the unexpected beauty, dignity, and profound humanity of life coming to an end.
Death and Denial
Author | : Daniel Liechty |
Publsiher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2002-12-30 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : UOM:39015056281382 |
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The theory of Generative Death Anxiety (GDA) suggests that at the deepest level, human behavior is motivated by the unavoidable need to shield oneself from consciousness of human mortality. Recognition that fear of death and its consequences necessarily colors the affairs of humans clearly runs through the history of religion and philosophy from the most ancient sources to the present. GDA theory is a developing body of research and writing that stands in this line of human thinking about death, giving prominent focus especially to pervasive human mortality anxiety in the range of its symbolic expressions and the behavioral consequences of this anxiety.
Birth and Death of Meaning
Author | : Ernest Becker |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781439118429 |
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Uses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do.
Freedom and Destiny
Author | : Rollo May |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1999-01-17 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780393346978 |
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The popular psychoanalyst examines the continuing tension in our lives between the possibilities that freedom offers and the various limitations imposed upon us by our particular fate or destiny. "May is an existential analyst who deservedly enjoys a reputation among both general and critical readers as an accessible and insightful social and psychological theorist. . . . Freedom's characteristics, fruits, and problems; destiny's reality; death; and therapy's place in the confrontation between freedom and destiny are examined. . . . Poets, social critics, artists, and other thinkers are invoked appropriately to support May's theory of freedom and destiny's interdependence."—Library Journal "Especially instructive, even stunning, is Dr. May's willingness to respect mystery. . . .There is, too, at work throughout the book a disciplined yet relaxed clinical mind, inclined to celebrate . . . what Flannery O'Connor called 'mystery and manners,' and to do so in a tactful, meditative manner."—Robert Coles, America
The Worm at the Core
Author | : Sheldon Solomon,Jeff Greenberg,Thomas A. Pyszczynski |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Death |
ISBN | : 9781400067473 |
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Demonstrates how an unconscious fear of death motivates nearly all human goals, behaviors, and cultures, examining the role of mortality awareness in prompting social unrest and war.