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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 | : New York : Free Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Courage |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4244700 |
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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.
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.
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.
Religion and the Meaning of Life
Author | : Clifford Williams |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2020-04-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781108421560 |
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Explores life's meaning through the lens of belief in God and lived realities including boredom, denial of death, and suicide.
Freud
Author | : Frederick Crews |
Publsiher | : Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2017-08-22 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781627797184 |
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From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator Since the 1970s, Sigmund Freud’s scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin—but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions were visionary discoveries of lasting value. Now, drawing on rarely consulted archives, Frederick Crews has assembled a great volume of evidence that reveals a surprising new Freud: a man who blundered tragicomically in his dealings with patients, who in fact never cured anyone, who promoted cocaine as a miracle drug capable of curing a wide range of diseases, and who advanced his career through falsifying case histories and betraying the mentors who had helped him to rise. The legend has persisted, Crews shows, thanks to Freud’s fictive self-invention as a master detective of the psyche, and later through a campaign of censorship and falsification conducted by his followers. A monumental biographical study and a slashing critique, Freud: The Making of an Illusion will stand as the last word on one of the most significant and contested figures of the twentieth century.
Escape from Evil
Author | : Ernest Becker |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105000008818 |
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An exploration of the natural history of evil.
Shakespeare the Denial of Death
Author | : James L. Calderwood |
Publsiher | : Univ of Massachusetts Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Death in literature |
ISBN | : UOM:39015014194560 |
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Examines how Shakespeare dramatizes the strategies people use to deal with death's inevitability, discusses the nature of Shakespearean tragedy, and also looks at the theme of immortality.