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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36965144 Title: The denial of death Author: Ernest Becker Publisher: New York : Free Press Paperbacks, 1997. ISBN/ISSN: 0684832402 9780684832401 OCLC:36965144

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The denial of death

Author:	Ernest Becker
Publisher:	New York : Free Press Paperbacks, 1997.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Ernest Becker Find more information about:
ISBN:	0684832402 9780684832401
OCLC Number:	36965144
Notes:	"With a new foreword by Sam Keen"--Cover. Originally published: New York : Free Press, 1973.
Description:	xxii, 314 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:	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?
Responsibility:	Ernest Becker.

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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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