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Title:
The denial of death / Ernest Becker.
Author:
Becker, Ernest.
Publication Information:
New York : Free Press Paperbacks, 1997.
Call Number:
BD444 .B36 1997
Abstract:
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.
Edition:
First Free Press Paperbacks ed.
ISBN:
9780684832401
Physical Description:
xxii, 314 pages ; 22 cm
General Note:
"With a new foreword by Sam Keen"--Cover.

Originally published: New York : Free Press, 1973.
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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