An edition of The Denial of Death (1973)

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The denial of death
Ernest Becker
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An edition of The Denial of Death (1973)

The denial of death

1st pbk. ed.

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Free Press
Language
English
Pages
315

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Subjects
Death, Heroes, Myth, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Death, Psychological aspects of Myth, Psychology, Courage, Death. 0, Aspect psychologique, Mort, Morte (Psicologia), Attitude to Death, Dood, Psychologie, Ontkenning (psychologie), Tod, Kierkegaard, soren, 1813-1855, Mythology, Grief, Death, psychological aspects
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Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

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The denial of death
1997, Free Press Paperbacks
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The Denial of Death
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1975, Free Press
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1975, Free Press, Collier Macmillan
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1973, Free Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction : human nature and the heroic
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
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
Retrospect and conclusion : the dilemmas of heroism. Psychology and religion : what is the heroic individual?

Edition Notes

Companion vol.: Escape from evil.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Copyright Date
1973

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
128/.5
Library of Congress
BD444 .B36

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 315 p. ;
Number of pages
315

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24950829M
ISBN 10
0029023106
ISBN 13
9780029023105
OCLC/WorldCat
3657217

First Sentence

"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."

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