The denial of death / Ernest Becker.
By: Becker, Ernest.
New York : Free Press Paperbacks, 1997Description: xxii, 314 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780684832401(pbk.).Subject(s): Death | Death -- Psychological aspects | Myth -- Psychological aspects | Heroes -- Psychology | Attitude to Death | MythologyGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | BD444 .B36 1997 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000009461 |
"With a new foreword by Sam Keen"--Cover.
Originally published: New York : Free Press, 1973.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
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.