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Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 & the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant & 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. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity & issues a call to life & its living that still resonates more than twenty years after its writing.Becker states that humans live in both the physical world & 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 & issues a call to life & its living that still resonates decades after it was written.°°° Ernest Becker was already dying when “The Denial of Death” was published 50 years ago this past fall. “This is a test of everything I’ve written about death,” he told a visitor to his Vancouver hospital room. Throughout his career as a cultural anthropologist, Becker had charted the undiscovered country that awaits us all. Now only 49 but losing a battle to colon cancer, he was being dispatched there himself. By the time his book was awarded a Pulitzer Prize the following spring, Becker was gone... Only by confronting our own mortality, Becker argued, could we live more fully. To hold that terror is to see more clearly what matters & what does not — and how important it is to grasp the difference. Contemplating death is like a cold plunge for the soul, a prick to the amygdala. You emerge renewed, your vision clarified. “To talk about hope is to give the right focus to the problem,” Becker wrote. — Alexander Nazaryan, NY Times, Dec. 2023 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. 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? Ernest Becker. With A New Foreword By Sam Keen--cover. Originally Published: New York : Free Press, 1973. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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. 1. Introduction: Human Nature And The Heroic -- 2. The Terror Of Death -- 3. The Recasting Of Some Basic Psychoanalytic Ideas -- 4. Human Character As A Vital Lie -- 5. The Psychoanalyst Kierkegaard -- 6. The Problem Of Freud's Character, Noch Einmal -- 7. The Spell Cast By Persons- The Nexus Of Unfreedom -- 8. Otto Rank And The Closure Of Psychoanalysis On Kierkegaard -- 9. The Present Outcome Of Psychoanalysis -- 10. A General View Of Mental Illness -- 11. Psychology And Religion: What Is The Heroic Individual? Companion Vol.: Escape From Evil. Includes Bibliographical References. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Denial of Death explores how people and cultures around the world have reacted to the concept of death from celebrated cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker. 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. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates decades after its writing. 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. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than twenty years after its writing. Drawing from religion and the human sciences, particularly psychology after Freud, the author attempts to demonstrate that the fear of death is man's central concern The first thing we have to do with heroism is to lay bare its underside, show what gives human heroics its specific nature and impetus.