| Author |
Becker, Ernest.
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| Title |
The Ernest Becker reader / selected, edited, and introduced by Daniel Liechty. |
| OCLC |
56517363 |
| ISBN |
0295984708 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780295984704 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Publisher |
Seattle : Ernest Becker Foundation in association with the University of Washington Press, [2005] |
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©2005 |
| Description |
248 pages ; 23 cm |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Psychology.
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Psychology, Pathological.
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Philosophical anthropology.
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Medical
Subject heading/s |
Psychoanalytic Theory.
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Anthropology, Cultural.
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Psychology, Social.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-24) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Part I: A psychosocial view of mental health (1960-1963) -- Anthropology, psychoanalysis and mental illness -- Socialization, command of performance, and mental illness (1962) -- Anthropological notes on the concept of aggression (1962) -- Psychotherapeutic observation on the Zen discipline (1960) -- Private versus public logic (1961) -- Toward a comprehensive theory of depression (1962) -- Toward a theory of schizophrenia (1962) -- The enduring value in Freud -- A note on Freud's primal horde theory (1961) -- The significance of freudian psychology (1963) -- The validity of 'Oedipus complex' as an abstract scientific construct (1964) -- Personality, communication and education for democracy -- Personality development in the modern world (1963) -- Social science and psychiatry (1963) -- Part II: Toward an integrated social science of behavior (1964-1971) -- Alienation -- The great historical convergence on the problem of alienation (1964) -- A theory of alienation as a philosophy of education (1967) -- Plea for social scientific synthesis -- A design for ethical man (1968) -- The ethical society (1968) -- The vision of the science of man (1968) -- The enlightenment paradox (1968) -- The second great step in human evolution (1968) -- The end of optimism -- The perspective of the present time (1971) -- The road back to the science of man (1971) -- Part III: Denial of death as interpretive organizing -- Principle (1971-1975) -- Meaning and self-esteem -- Self-esteem (1971) -- Culture and personality (1971) -- Social encounters (1971) -- Biological imperialism (1972) -- Toward the merger of animal and human studies (1974) -- Death and denial -- The terror of death (1973) -- Human character as a vital lie (1973) -- The nature of social evil (1975-posthumous) -- Beyond psychology -- A conversation with Ernest Becker (1974) -- The spectrum of loneliness (1974). |
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