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The Ernest Becker Reader /

"Although Ernest Becker's life and career were cut short, his major writings have remained continually in print and have captured the interest of subsequent generations of readers. The Ernest Becker Reader makes available for the first time in one volume much of Becker's early work an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Becker, Ernest
Otros Autores: Liechty, Daniel, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : Ernest Becker Foundation in association with the University of Washington Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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).