The denial of death
By: Ernest Becker
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780029023105
Copyright date: 1973
Subjects: Death; Aspect psychologique; Courage; Mort
Notes: Companion vol.: Escape from evil.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : human nature and the heroic; title: 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; title: 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; title: Retrospect and conclusion : the dilemmas of heroism. Psychology and religion : what is the heroic individual?