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Original Title:	The Denial Of Death
ISBN:	0684832402 (ISBN13: 9780684832401)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1974)

The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker

Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

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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.

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Title	:	The Denial of Death
Author	:	Ernest Becker
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	May 8th 1997 by Free Press (first published 1973)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Psychology. Nonfiction. Death. Sociology. Science

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I dont want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I dont want to live in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live in my apartment. Woody Allen.Beckers main thesis in this book is that the most fundamental problem of mankind, sitting at his very core, is his fear of death. Being the only animal that is conscious of his inevitable mortality, his lifes project is to deny or repress this fear, and hence his need for some kind of a heroism. Every

The Denial of Death straddles the line between astounding intellectual ambition and crackpot theorizing; it is a compendium of brilliant intellectual exercises that are more satisfying poetically than scientifically; it is a desperately self-oblivious and quasi-futile attempt to resurrect the ruins of Freudian psychoanalysis by re-defining certain parameters and ostensibly de-Freudianizing them; there is an unhealthy mixture of jaw-dropping recognition and eye-rolling recognition.It is important

Is there a 'couldn't bring myself to finish' rating? I feel like I'm cheating by putting this one on my "read" shelf...Here's the thing... I'm fairly well read, I've taken philosophy classes, I've powered through some pretty dry books. But apparently I CANNOT bring myself to power through a dry book about PSYCHOANALYSIS. Being a modern psych major, and a fairly well-read one at that, AND one who has dealt with mental issues personally... I can't bring myself to believe a god damned WORD that

This was transforming. If I manage to live long enough to grow old despite my overwhelming urge to suicide now and then , I would look back on this book as my first lesson on 'human condition'. This book won Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction(1973). New York Times described it as ' One of the most challenging book of the decade .' And upon googling I came to know that this book is a seminal book iin psychology and one of the most influential books written on psychology in 20th century. It can

Becker introduces the very basic idea that we humans have four distinguishing features: (1) we can contemplate our death, we do contemplate -- and try to deny -- our death, and (2) we can create symbolic realities of thought and action, and (3) we project and perpetuate symbolic realities of thought and action to create systems that will outlive -- in an everyday sense "transcend" our physical mortality; we want to symbolically live on and some of us succeed in doing so (a major point at the end

I really only want to read this if it's going to give me concrete, practical, how-to tips on denying death.

Going to school when I did, its hard to conceive of how important the psychoanalytic project was for so much of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The influence of Freud and the subsequent schools of psychology developed by his students spread into virtually every discipline, from literary analysis to economics, but by the time I got there it was all pretty much gone. Im sure that somewhere theres an Onoda-type holdout department that wont let the old stuff go, or one or two octogenarian