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The denial of death

Becker, Ernest. (Author).

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 9781416590347
  • ISBN: 141659034X
  • ISBN: 0684832402
  • ISBN: 9780684832401
  • Physical Description: remote
    1 online resource (xxii, 314 pages)
  • Publisher: New York : Free Press Paperbacks, 1997.

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General Note:
"With a new foreword by Sam Keen"--Cover.
Originally published: New York : Free Press, 1973.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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?
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Death
Death -- Psychological aspects
Myth -- Psychological aspects
Heroes -- Psychology
PHILOSOPHY -- General
Death
Death -- Psychological aspects
Heroes -- Psychology
Myth -- Psychological aspects
Attitude to Death
Mythology
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